The Waterberg is a mountainous massif of approximately 654,033 hectare in north Limpopo Province, South Africa.
The average height of the mountain range is 600 m with a few peaks rising up to 2,000 m above sea level. Vaalwater town is located just north of the mountain range. The extensive rock formation was shaped by hundreds of millions of years of riverine erosion to yield diverse bluff and butte landform. The ecosystem can be characterised as a dry deciduous forest or Bushveld. Within the Waterberg there are archaeological finds dating to the Stone Age, and nearby are early evolutionary finds related to the origin of humans.
River gorge in the Lapalala Wilderness of the Waterberg showing horizontal sandstone layering
Bushman Stone Age rock painting, Lapalala Wilderness, Waterberg, South Africa.
Male and female Black-headed orioles in courtship ritual, riparian zone of central Waterberg, South Africa
The Sandrivier range near Vaalwater constitutes one section of the Waterberg escarpment. It consists of coarse grained, yellow, cross-bedded sandstone.
A massif is a principal mountain mass, such as a compact portion of a mountain range, containing one or more summits. In mountaineering literature, a massif is frequently used to denote the main mass of an individual mountain.
Aerial view of Mont Blanc massif, an example of a massif and also the highest summit in the Alps.
Panorama of Pirin Mountain massif, Bulgaria
Gran Sasso d'Italia massif seen from an airplane. Part of the Apennine Mountains, it is located in the Abruzzo region of Italy.
