Statistics - bend it anyway you like!

[+Danie Viljoen]

Most found caches:

The caches with the most finds in Africa:

1. GCMYYZ Table Top Trove, Richter Family, South Africa, 509 finds

2. GCJG9J Cheops V, atorrigi, Egypt, 504 finds

3. GC1956A Valley of the Kings, marzcz, Egypt, 442 finds

4. GC114RH Cape Town TB Hotel, The Huskies, South Africa, 410 finds

5. GCWK3K TF16 180° Sea, Trackinfind, South Africa, 366 finds

6. GC9CC4 Signal Hill, Peter Scholtz, South Africa, 353 finds

7. GC1A0PP Hurghada Sunrise, kpihus, Egypt, 343 finds

8. GC1DB1F Marracache, the Mailers, Morocco, 335 finds

9. GC77E Cape Agulhas, Peter Scholtz, South Africa, 313 finds

10. GC19A92 Karnak Temple, The Puffins, Egypt, 295 finds

 

Most finds during the past year:

1. GC2GG2C Nobel Square, Cape Trio, 205 finds

2. GCMYYZ Table Top Trove, Richter Family, 142 finds

3. GC2AA8R SS: RMS Athens, paddawan, 140 finds

4. GC2G27Z "O".... I'm famous, blitsseun, 130 finds

5 GC2EE3W SS: De Visch, paddawan, 128 finds

.

[+Danie Viljoen]

Number of cachers:

• Up to today, 7255 cachers have found at least one cache in South Africa. (15426 for the whole of Africa.)
  
• During the past year, 3155 cachers have found at least one cache in South Africa. (6224 for the whole of Africa.)
  
• Of these 3155 cachers, 2107 (67%) have started during the last 12 months.
  
• If one defines an active cacher as one who has found at least 12 caches during the past year (on average 1/month), then there are currently 1036 active cachers in South Africa, and 1210 in Africa.
  

Edited October 19, 2011 by Danie Viljoen

[+Carbon Hunter]

Thank you Danie - these numbers are always so interesting. Nice set of stats on the Power run.

 

Weereens dankie

[+Wazat]

Fastest 2000 finds:

The fastest 2000 African finds ever:

1. iPajero: 247 days

2. MadSons: 292 days

3. Leon St: 710 days

4. Danie Viljoen: 779 days

5. gerhardoosMPsa: 908 days

6. Wormgeocash: 1313 days

7. Tricky Vicky & Mickey: 1532 days

8. cache-fan: 1668 days

9. cownchicken: 1757 days

10. rodnjoan: 1882 days

 

I've Been caching for 1680 days but my name never made it?

[+Danie Viljoen]

I've Been caching for 1680 days but my name never made it?

My apologies - I forgot to update my script to include the latest two members of the 2000 club. In the process I missed Wazat and Antron:

6. Antron: 1292 days

8. Wazat: 1492 days

[+Wazat]

I've Been caching for 1680 days but my name never made it?

My apologies - I forgot to update my script to include the latest two members of the 2000 club. In the process I missed Wazat and Antron:

6. Antron: 1292 days

8. Wazat: 1492 days

 

Cool. But now looking back. My 1000 th day of caching I reached 500 finds. The next 500 came within the year of 2010' so that was 1365 days since then another 1058 caches to date in this year. That puts on the other 1058 at -130 days so you need to update the 1000 club too, LoL.

 

Can it be worked out who has moved the most travelers. And what are the caches that have the most overall travelers visiting them....

[+CapeDoc]

How many caches are there on the Cape Peninsula? Please don't get too technical about the definition of peninsula, I just need a good guess.

It is for a newspaper article and fairly urgent.

[+Danie Viljoen]

How many caches are there on the Cape Peninsula? Please don't get too technical about the definition of peninsula, I just need a good guess.

It is for a newspaper article and fairly urgent.

About 640 (10% of all the caches in South Africa).

Edited November 15, 2011 by Danie Viljoen

[+Carbon Hunter]

How about that list that was around a while ago - the ten (or 20) caches that have not been found for the longest time? And perhaps how they have changed over the past year - I know there were a few people determined to grab a few of them.

[+CapeDoc]

Thanks Danie!!!😃

[+Fish Eagle]

How many caches are there on the Cape Peninsula? Please don't get too technical about the definition of peninsula, I just need a good guess.

It is for a newspaper article and fairly urgent.

About 640 (10% of all the caches in South Africa).

And I've found so few of them....

 

Anybody got a job for me in CT?

I'm a highly qualified and experienced scrimshanker.

[+Danie Viljoen]

How about that list that was around a while ago - the ten (or 20) caches that have not been found for the longest time? And perhaps how they have changed over the past year - I know there were a few people determined to grab a few of them.

The 25 longest unfound caches in South Africa:

1. GCHB5H Facing the Knife Edge, Montagu, Western Cape 2006/02/13: 5.75 years

2. GCHB5J Bald Ibis Heights, Montagu, Western Cape 2006/02/13: 5.75 years

3. GCHB5K Beyond the Great Mystery, Montagu, Western Cape 2006/02/13: 5.75 years

4. GCT60Y Five Tibetans, Western Cape, 2007/01/03: 4.87 years

5. GCVY6J Mudskipper Mayhem, Kwazulu Natal, 2007/07/21: 4.32 years

6. GCXEW9 Solitree, Gauteng, 2007/08/26: 4.22 years

7. GCW7AQ Magnificent Mountains, Eastern Cape, 2007/09/14: 4.17 years

8. GCXBGM Porcelain, Mpumalanga, 2007/09/25: 4.14 years

9. GCXBGQ Black Eagle, Mpumalanga, 2007/09/25: 4.14 years

10. GCXBGR Sweaty Palms, Mpumalanga, 2007/09/25: 4.14 years

11. GCXGXF High Road, Mpumalanga, 2007/09/25: 4.14 years

12. GCD994 Uitkyk Kop, Western Cape, 2007/09/26: 4.14 years

13. GCTP9F De Bruin Dam, Eastern Cape, 2007/09/30: 4.13 years

14. GC822B Papkuilsfontein 4X4, Northern Cape, 2007/11/24: 3.98 years

15. GC16KQ6 Croc, Limpopo, 2007/11/28: 3.96 years

16. GCRD0N Mazeppa Bay, Eastern Cape, 2008/01/06: 3.86 years

17. GCYMH6 Majubasnek, Eastern Cape, 2008/02/09: 3.76 years

18. GCPJYZ Silvermere, Eastern Cape, 2008/02/10: 3.76 years

19. GCTBTQ Helenius Postma's Resting Place, Eastern Cape, 2008/02/10: 3.76 years

20. GCQ2D2 Smithfield, Free State, 2008/02/24: 3.72 years

21. GC199Z5 Black Holes, Eastern Cape, 2008/02/29: 3.71 years

22. GC1902T Ivory Trail - Camp Ntomeni, Limpopo, 2008/03/01: 3.71 years

23. GC16727 A Scuba Miracle, North West, 2008/04/06: 3.61 years

24. GC17Y0Z Nsami View, Limpopo, 2008/05/23: 3.48 years

25. GC1C24G Upper Kei, Eastern Cape, 2008/07/11: 3.35 years

 

(The original list was published on 22 March 2009.)

[+Carbon Hunter]

Dankie Danie - amazing to think caches can go so long unfound in SA.

[+Carbon Hunter]

Most found caches:

The caches with the most finds in Africa:

1. GCMYYZ Table Top Trove, Richter Family, South Africa, 509 finds

2. GCJG9J Cheops V, atorrigi, Egypt, 504 finds

3. GC1956A Valley of the Kings, marzcz, Egypt, 442 finds

4. GC114RH Cape Town TB Hotel, The Huskies, South Africa, 410 finds

5. GCWK3K TF16 180° Sea, Trackinfind, South Africa, 366 finds

6. GC9CC4 Signal Hill, Peter Scholtz, South Africa, 353 finds

7. GC1A0PP Hurghada Sunrise, kpihus, Egypt, 343 finds

8. GC1DB1F Marracache, the Mailers, Morocco, 335 finds

9. GC77E Cape Agulhas, Peter Scholtz, South Africa, 313 finds

10. GC19A92 Karnak Temple, The Puffins, Egypt, 295 finds

 

Most finds during the past year:

1. GC2GG2C Nobel Square, Cape Trio, 205 finds

2. GCMYYZ Table Top Trove, Richter Family, 142 finds

3. GC2AA8R SS: RMS Athens, paddawan, 140 finds

4. GC2G27Z "O".... I'm famous, blitsseun, 130 finds

5 GC2EE3W SS: De Visch, paddawan, 128 finds

.

 

I find it so interesting that the Cape caches remain top of these kind of stats year after year. Well done.

 

Also good to see a SA cache coming in at #1 - I think previous lists had the Egyptian caches in top spots/s.

Edited November 15, 2011 by Carbon Hunter

[+Danie Viljoen]

amazing to think caches can go so long unfound in SA.

I was actually surprised to see how often most caches are found, as you can see in the following graph:

What this shows is that 42% of all the active South African caches are found at least once every 30 days, and 62% are found every two months. This is quite remarkable, given the number of remote caches.

[+Danie Viljoen]

The slowest day in the last 365 days was Thursday, 23 June 2011, with only 57 finds.

(The last day without any finds was 21 January 2005.)

The busiest day was Saturday, 23 July 2011, (when the power series was published) with 6855 finds.

The median for the last year was 205 finds/day.

 

The average find distribution is:

Su: 24.3% (478 finds)

Mo: 9.0% (178 finds)

Tu: 9.1% (180 finds)

We: 7.7% (152 finds)

Th: 8.2% (162 finds)

Fr: 9.5% (188 finds)

Sa: 32.1% (632 finds)

Week average: 1969 finds

[+Carbon Hunter]

Well with 6855 finds on a single day - argue as much as you like - there are a lot of cachers who like the power trail out there......

 

Not my cup of tea - but proof that "if you place a cache - it will be hunted and found."

 

I also find your graph very interesting and it shows that cachers really do aim for closing the gap on their lists. A sign of dedicated cachers.

 

Two questions:

1) Can you do a similar graph on cache longitivity - i.e. how long do caches tend to stay active in SA - I'm assuming some kind of skewed bell curve to result (I'm also not sure how you could do this (perhaps only caches archived and length of time they were active / and another on time since placing)?

 

2) What is the Urban:Rural cache percentage in SA (I guess some fancy work with GSAK looking at caches in Metro municipalities vs non) - but that is also not really accurate as there could be some remote caches ("rural") within the municipal extent of a place like Durban.

 

Weereens dankie Danie (and all the others)

[+Danie Viljoen]

2) What is the Urban:Rural cache percentage in SA

Interesting question, but I am not sure how to decide which are urban and which are rural. Would you say the 61 caches in Newcastle are urban or rural? What about the ones on Table Mountain?

[+Carbon Hunter]

2) What is the Urban:Rural cache percentage in SA

Interesting question, but I am not sure how to decide which are urban and which are rural. Would you say the 61 caches in Newcastle are urban or rural? What about the ones on Table Mountain?

Agreed - I thought about that while asking - I guess one can only go by terrain / or municipal bounday - and a cache in the middle of a little dorpie then comes out as rural - whereas a cache in a nature reserve 25 km from a city like Durban (or Suikerbosrand) comes out as urban.

 

But an indicator perhaps?

[+Danie Viljoen]

OK, if one takes the simple route and classify all the caches within the municipal borders of the following 8 cities as urban and the rest as rural, then there are 51% urban and 49% rural caches.

Cape Town

Johannesburg

Pretoria

Nelspruit

P.E.

Durban

Bloemfontein

Ekurhuleni

[+Danie Viljoen]

Can you do a similar graph on cache longitivity - i.e. how long do caches tend to stay active in SA

The following graph shows the percentage of archived caches which died within a specified period:

 

This means that 22% of the archived caches got archived before 100 days after they have been published, and a further 14% got archived between 100 and 200 days, etc. There is a clear infant mortality effect!

[+Danie Viljoen]

Cache Survival Probability:

The following graph gives the probability that a cache will reach a specific age (in months) without getting archived:

 

This means that 87% of caches (excluding event and CITO caches) survive their first year, 81% reach 2 years, etc.

90% of the mortality happens before the first 3 years - if you can make it survive 3 years it appears to be safe!

[+Danie Viljoen]

Favourite caches:

Of the 50 South African caches with the most favorite points:

25 are in the Western Cape

16 are in Gauteng

4 are in the Free State

3 are in KZN

1 is in Mpumalanga

1 is in the Northern Cape

 

Top favourite cache finders:

The following cachers have found the most of the top 50 favourite South African caches:

1. iPajero: 38 found

2. cownchicken: 33 found

3. Henzz: 27 found

4. Zambesiboy: 24 found

4. battlerat and pussycat: 24 found

6. The Huskies: 23 found

7. Antron: 22 found

7. paddawan: 22 found

9. Danie Viljoen: 21 found

9. SawaSawa: 21 found

9. brianhfox: 21 found

[+TechnoNut]

Favourite caches:

Of the 50 South African caches with the most favorite points:

25 are in the Western Cape

16 are in Gauteng

4 are in the Free State

3 are in KZN

1 is in Mpumalanga

1 is in the Northern Cape

 

 

Nice one Danie - what are the 50?

 

PT

[+Danie Viljoen]

Favourite South African caches:

The top 50 South African caches (with the most favorite points):

 

1. GC185 Sentinel View 33

2. GC1GZ0K Little Netherlands TB Hotel 29

2. GCVDHN Sailors' Star 29

4. GC20XJH Ipanema 28

5. GCMYYZ Table Top Trove 27

6. GC1WBRJ Longfinger 25

7. GC2X329 Stellenbosch TB Lodge 23

8. GC1BZ22 Kirstenbosch Gardens - Big 5 21

9. GC1ABZK Table Mountain - Cape Town 20

9. GC2P0XK Almost Metallophobia 20

11. GC23RQN All the fives 19

11. GC27RN2 Snail Mail 19

11. GC2926W A Tribute to Friends and Family 19

11. GC2G0ZA The Darkness Beckons 19

11. GCW8AV Training 19

16. GC2WJ2X Maps et al 18

16. GC77E Cape Agulhas 18

18. GC1H1D7 Of Diamonds and Pearls 17

18. GC1VJ3T The Piston Cup 17

20. GC18JVF Star Crater 15

20. GC1XH6Y Pylon the Madness 15

20. GC1ZR65 Orpheus in the Underworld 15

20. GC23KTY Good Hope 15

20. GC250RH Morningstar Mystery 15

20. GC2D3ZW FGC 15

20. GC2EX44 Curse of the FTF # 3 - Gauteng (Guardhouse) 15

20. GCQTPD The Mines of Moria 15

20. GCVE49 Pieces of Art 15

20. GCVE5M Naval M4 15

30. GC1785M Kruger National Park 14

30. GC251A0 Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel 14

30. GC2ABAX German Letters, Portuguese Stamps 14

30. GC2JC7M Driefontein Farm House 14

30. GC2QY19 A Pot of WHAT? 14

30. GCV8C5 Lost Bomb 14

30. GC31WXR Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel 14

37. GC11J35 Augrabies Falls - Arrarat 13

37. GC1B7N5 Pretoria Hitch Hiker Hotel 13

37. GC1M055 The Ice-Box 13

37. GC1RHNC Cornwall Hill 13

37. GC20QPK Elephant Proctology 13

37. GC20ZC3 THE BIGGEST TREE IN SOUTH AFRICA - AND 5 CHAMPIONS 13

37. GC2GPZ1 Chilean Mine Rescue 13

37. GC70AE Lions Head 13

37. GCNN9C Stoddard's Demise 13

37. GCP64K Konsentrasiekampkerkhof 13

37. GCQKQQ Frodo's Journey 13

37. GCRDX6 F in Franchhoek 13

37. GCXBZQ The Da Vinci Code 13

37. GC2N4G0 Spring Tide 13

[+TechnoNut]

Favourite South African caches:

The top 50 South African caches (with the most favorite points):

 

OK, thanks - I think the Free State ones are all the same owner .

 

If not too much to ask, what are the top 10 for each province?

With (say) a cut off of 5 or 6 fave points.

 

PT

[+Danie Viljoen]

Favourite cache planters:

Based only on the top 50 favourite caches (it is unfortunately still a manual process), the following cache planters have received the most favorite points:

 

1. louwtjievdw: 86 points on 4 caches

2. CapeDoc: 61 points on 4 caches

3. GEO936: 60 points on 3 caches

4. Hesamati: 36 points on 2 caches

5. npl: 33 points on 1 cache

[+Danie Viljoen]

If not too much to ask, what are the top 10 for each province?

With (say) a cut off of 5 or 6 fave points.

 

PT

Go to Hide and Seek a Geocache on the website, select the country and the province, and then sort the results by clicking on the favorites ribbon.

[+Danie Viljoen]

Favorite points:

A total of 7441 favorite points have been allocated to the 6682 active South African caches.

3962 caches (59%) have no points

1255 caches (19%) have 1 point

539 caches (8%) have 2 points

323 caches (5%) have 3 points

177 caches (3%) have 4 points

128 caches (2%) have 5 points

69 caches (1%) have 6 points

71 caches (1%) have 7 points

37 caches have 8 points

22 caches have 9 points

21 caches have 10 points

78 caches have more than 10 points

 

To view it another way, if a cache has at least 1 favorite point, it is among the top 41% most favourite caches.

At least 2 points puts it in the top 22%

3 points: top 14%

4 points: top 9%

5 points: top 5%

12 points: top 1%

14 points: top 0.5%

Edited November 17, 2011 by Danie Viljoen

[+Carbon Hunter]

Favorite points:

To view it another way, if a cache has at least 1 favorite point, it is among the top 41% most favourite caches.

At least 2 points puts it in the top 22%

3 points: top 14%

4 points: top 9%

5 points: top 5%

12 points: top 1%

14 points: top 0.5%

 

that's a nice way of looking at it.

 

I really like Capedoc's signature on the Forum - "If you wouldn't give it a Favourite Point - why hide it?" or words to that effect.

 

I like mthat maxim.

[+Danie Viljoen]

If all the cachers were premium members and if they all allocated all their favorite points, there should be one favorite point for every 10 finds. The actual ratio of finds to favorite points is currently 31. I expect this number will come down; it should be interesting to monitor this one.

[+Carbon Hunter]

I see a lot of Premium members have not allocated their favourite points - and also a number of "old" finds could also get FP's from these members.

 

I hope more PM's do allocate them.

[+cincol]

Favourite points are contentious. Extremely difficult [and unfair] to use as a measure. Remote caches, that may receive 2 visitors a year might well be exceptional caches but get only 1 favourite in a year. I would not measure any cache anywhere in the world based on favourite points.

 

My 2c worth.

[+CapeDoc]

Favourite points are contentious. Extremely difficult [and unfair] to use as a measure. Remote caches, that may receive 2 visitors a year might well be exceptional caches but get only 1 favourite in a year. I would not measure any cache anywhere in the world based on favourite points.

 

My 2c worth.

I think you are right. Caches with more favorites might not be the best caches.

 

But even with the constraints you mention, if one looks at the percentage of favorites to finds, you do get a rough idea of the "quality" of the cache. Some of my most remote caches have few finds and favorites, but high percentages of favorites per find.

If I had a short time in an area, I would look at which caches had the highest percentage of favorites and use it as a guide to which to find. I then would read the logs. If a cache was very remote, with only a few finds, high percentage and great logs, I probably would go for it rather than a cache with more favorites but lower percent and poorer logs.

[+Carbon Hunter]

Yep - agreed - I always look at the percentages of PMs to FP on these remote caches . I'm really chuffed to get a high 5age on my remote caches with 5 odd finds and 2 FP after 2 years. More avluable than a 15+ cache in the middle of a city.

[+DamhuisClan]

Favourite points are contentious. Extremely difficult [and unfair] to use as a measure. Remote caches, that may receive 2 visitors a year might well be exceptional caches but get only 1 favourite in a year. I would not measure any cache anywhere in the world based on favourite points.

 

My 2c worth.

 

This is true, but if I were to go top that remote location, and can do one cache on route to my destination, then I most likely would try and do the cache with the favourite point.

So I think the points must be viewed in a local flavour / area, rather then national.

 

(Just my 2c worth)

[+Danie Viljoen]

On 4 December the 2000th (active) cache in Gauteng was published: Braam 2. Gauteng is the first province to reach this milestone. The average distance between caches in Gauteng is currently 3.2km.

 

The Western Cape is second, with 1429 active caches. The average distance between caches is 10.2km

 

Natal, with 1105 active caches, has an average distance between caches of 9.8km

 

At the other end of the spectrum, the Northern Cape has only 100 active caches, and an average distance between caches of 64.7km

 

For the whole of South Africa: 6752 active caches; average distance between caches: 13.7km

 

The rest of Africa: 1092 active caches; average distance between caches: 175.5km

 

The whole world: 1593069 active caches; average distance between caches: 10.4km

Edited December 9, 2011 by Danie Viljoen

[+Carbon Hunter]

Well done Gauteng.

 

Dankie Danie

[+Danie Viljoen]

Most active cachers:

The following cachers have found the most African caches during the period 8 Dec 2010 to 7 Dec 2011:

1. iPajero 2073 finds

2. MadSons 1928 finds

3. Leon St 1423 finds

4. B and C Inc 1341 finds

5. rodnjoan 1201 finds

6. Danie Viljoen 1194 finds

7. Wazat 1155 finds

8. gerhardoosMPsa 1096 finds

9. Wormgeocash 1061 finds

10. BAKGAT 1058 finds

[+Danie Viljoen]

During the past year, 2648 new caches have been published in Africa, of which 152 (5.7%) have been archived in the same year.

The numbers for other places are: (Place, new caches, number archived, percentage archived)

South Africa: 2393 new, 136 archived, 5.7% archived

Gauteng: 1163 new, 61 archived, 5.2% archived

KZN: 382 new, 24 archived, 6.3% archived

Western Cape: 346 new, 34 archived, 9.8% archived

Eastern Cape: 132 new, 4 archived, 3.0% archived

Mpumalanga: 122 new, 9 archived, 7.4% archived

North West: 105 new, 1 archived, 1.0% archived

Free State: 103 new, 3 archived, 2.9% archived

Limpopo: 25 new, 0 archived, 0.0% archived

Northern Cape: 15 new, 0 archived, 0.0% archived

Rest of Africa: 255 new, 16 archived, 6.3% archived

[+TechnoNut]

During the past year, 2648 new caches have been published in Africa, of which 152 (5.7%) have been archived in the same year.

The numbers for other places are: (Place, new caches, number archived, percentage archived)

 

 

Danie

 

have you excluded events / CITOs etc?

 

PT

[+TechnoNut]

I have done some stats for KZN, for CY 2011.

 

There have been 343 placements since 1 January (excluding event type caches).

That is a whisker more than 1 per day.

Six have been archived, and 13 are currently disabled.

 

Statistics by owner, type, size, location, month etc are in the attached graphic.

 

 

Owner stats are for those placing more than one cache. 24 cachers placed one cache.

 

PT

Edited December 9, 2011 by TechnoNut

[+Danie Viljoen]

have you excluded events / CITOs etc?

No, everything included.

For Gauteng, 55 of the 61 archived caches are events.

KZN: 17 of 24

Western Cape: 10 of 34

All of Africa: 99 of 152

[+Carbon Hunter]

have you excluded events / CITOs etc?

No, everything included.

For Gauteng, 55 of the 61 archived caches are events.

KZN: 17 of 24

Western Cape: 10 of 34

All of Africa: 99 of 152

99 events in Africa. Amazing - can you show where they were?

[+TechnoNut]

 

99 events in Africa. Amazing - can you show where they were?

 

Egypt 3

Kenya 1

Morocco 3

Namibia 4

Swaziland 1

SA - all others

[+Wazat]

Just wondering... Who had the most finds in a day?

What are the find stats for 2011...

Also placed stats.

 

And not sure if this was done, which are the most remote caches per province, and the centroids per province.

[+Danie Viljoen]

What are the find stats for 2011...

I am busy updating my database - will respond as soon as it is done.

[+TechnoNut]

stats for 2011...

Also placed stats.

 

Here are the Placed Stats for KZN ....

 

[+Danie Viljoen]

New caches published in 2011:

 

Africa: 2656 (1909 in 2010, 39% more than 2010)

South Africa: 2390 (1604 in 2010, 49% more than 2010)

 

Gauteng: 1135 (398 in 2010, 185% more than 2010)

KZN: 396 (260 in 2010, 52% more than 2010)

Western Cape: 343 (402 in 2010, 15% less than 2010)

Eastern Cape: 144 (113 in 2010, 27% more than 2010)

Mpumalanga: 115 (130 in 2010, 12% less than 2010)

Free State: 114 (172 in 2010, 34% less than 2010)

North West: 109 (49 in 2010, 122% more than 2010)

Limpopo: 23 (37 in 2010, 38% less than 2010)

Northern Cape: 11 (43 in 2010, 74% less than 2010)

Rest of Africa: 266 (305 in 2010, 13% less than 2010)

 

Although the totals may look impressive, 5 of the 9 provinces actually published less new caches than in the previous year.

Most of the action has been in Gauteng (with the power series) and surprisingly, Natal. The Western Cape slipped from first place in 2010 to third place.

[+Danie Viljoen]

Cache types published in 2011:

 

Traditional: 2051 (1250 in 2010, 64% more than in 2010)

Mystery: 137 (125 in 2010, 10% more than in 2010)

Event: 95 (59 in 2010, 61% more than in 2010)

Multi: 72 (110 in 2010, 35% less than in 2010)

EarthCache: 15 (49 in 2010, 69% less than in 2010)

Letterbox: 10 (6 in 2010, 67% more than in 2010)

CITO: 8 (2 in 2010, 300% more than in 2010)

Wherigo: 2 (3 in 2010, 33% less than in 2010)

Total: 2390 (1604 in 2010, 49% more than in 2010)