The Knysna Municipality is a Category B municipality located in the Garden Route District of the Western Cape. The area comprises 11 wards with a population of 73 835 and a total of 1059 km² that stretches from Swartvlei in Sedgefield in the West to Brackenhill in the East.

It is the historic, geographic and cultural epicentre of the Garden Route and a region high on the must see list of most visitors to South Africa, and with good reason. The 300km stretch of coastline from Mossel Bay in the west to Storms River in the east gets its name from the area’s ecologically diverse range of topography, terrain, vegetation and wildlife.