South Africa Cadastral Parcels (Surveyor-General · Erven & Farms)
South African Surveyor-General erven and farm portions by number and region, farm name or point.
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South Africa Cadastral Parcels & Erf Lookup MCP
Connect your AI assistant (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) to BumiAtlas for South African land research through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
This listing is a focused entry point for:
- All ~9.1M surveyed parcels from the Chief Surveyor-General's national cadastre: erven, farm portions, parent farms, agricultural holdings and public places
- Parcel lookup by number and registration region (
erf 13583 East London,portion 11 of 930 Cape), parent farm name, SG key, or coordinates - CSG label (
RE/13583), deed diagram, survey record and sectional title references, status codes and computed area - Satellite and street map images of a parcel and its neighbours, labelled by CSG label
Parcels have no owner, title deed or value: the cadastre is surveyed boundaries only.
Connect
https://bumiatlas.com/mcp/southafrica
Add it as a custom connector in any MCP client and sign in with Google. Tools, examples and data notes: bumiatlas.com/mcp-docs/southafrica.
- Claude: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, paste the URL, then Connect.
- ChatGPT: Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced → Developer mode, then Create with the URL and OAuth authentication.
Tools
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
ZA_parcel_search | Find parcels by number and region, farm name, PRCL_KEY or SG id, or latitude, longitude; each result is the whole record, the boundary as GeoJSON on request |
ZA_parcel_image | Satellite or street map image of a parcel or point, with every parcel in view outlined and labelled with its CSG label |
Example prompts
- "Which parcel is at -33.9249, 18.4241?"
- "Look up erf 13583 East London and show it on satellite imagery."
- "Find portion 11 of farm 930 in the Cape region."
- "Which parent farms are called Waterval?"
Data source
Cadastre © Chief Surveyor-General, South Africa, via the DFFE geoportal. A copy of public data for research, not a legal land record.