HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080013000
Bassin de Mhatuze River
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 1 administrative regions : Uthungulu
Sub-basin area
31,6km²
Upstream area
3 663,6km²
Discharge
38,97m³/s
Mean elev.
22m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Okula836 km²
- Bassin de Mhatuze River142 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 31.5 km²99.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Richards Bay Game Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
1.65 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
476 distinct species · 1 759 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Bassin de Mhatuze River : 34 espèces reliées par 52 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 5.8%, 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).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,8°C
Annual rain
1 114mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,19
Runoff
338mm/an
PET
1 373mm
AET
943mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
108cm
Forest
47%
Crops
8%
Urban
1%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)