Mountain Catchment Area · zaf
Hottentots-Holland Mountain Catchment Area
- Area
- 240 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Reported
- Year
- 1985
Overview
- Designation
- Mountain Catchment Area
- Established
- 1985
- Managing authority
- Private Owners
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
2 075 distinct species · 21 811 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Hottentots-Holland Mountain Catchment Area : 30 espèces reliées par 41 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 5.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology8 basins · 4 lakes · 8 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
27,7km
Lake surface here
4,39km²
Basins crossed
8
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
2 231km²
Discharge in basins
2,5m³/s
Mean precip.
829mm/an
Mean T°
15,4°C
Moisture idx
-0,27
Max snow
1%
Mean runoff
397mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
305m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Lourenssub-area434,3 km²overlap116.65 km²49%
- Bassin de Palmiet Riversub-area467,2 km²overlap43.50 km²18%
- Bassin de Swartriviersub-area788,5 km²overlap40.13 km²17%
- Bassin de Eerste Riversub-area628,8 km²overlap15.06 km²6%
- Bassin de Berg Riversub-area1 771,3 km²overlap13.31 km²6%
- Basin #15180sub-area68,4 km²overlap9.99 km²4%
- Bassin de Sonderend Riversub-area2 231 km²overlap0.89 km²0%
- Bassin de Diep Riversub-area1 488,2 km²overlap0.76 km²0%
Lakes (4, top by area)
Rivers / streams (8, ord ≥ 4)
- Steenbras Riverord 2len here13.38 km95%total14 km
- Palmiet Riverord 3len here6.69 km12%total56 km
- Jakkals Riverord 1len here2.95 km30%total10 km
- Klein-Palmietrivierord 1len here2.31 km61%total4 km
- Banghoekrivierord 1len here1.49 km10%total14 km
- Dawidskraal Riverord 1len here0.80 km31%total3 km
- Palmietord 2len here0.10 km1%total12 km
- Bot Riverord 3len here0.01 km0%total54 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- -34.20590, 18.87889
- Open in maps
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.