HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080013180
Bassin de Mdloti 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 3 administrative regions : Umgungundlovu, eThekwini, iLembe
Sub-basin area
490,7km²
Upstream area
490,7km²
Discharge
4,17m³/s
Mean elev.
419m
Administrative coverage
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 298.0 km²60.8% of basin
- eThekwini164.5 km²33.6% of basin
- 27.5 km²5.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 788 distinct species · 77 972 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Mdloti River : 33 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 40 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
19,4°C
Annual rain
922mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
268mm/an
PET
1 293mm
AET
781mm
Mean slope
9,2°
Water table
525cm
Forest
70%
Crops
35%
Urban
14%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)