Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080013310

Bassin de Fafa

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 : Sisonke, Ugu, eThekwini

Coastal basinPfafstetter: 12553370

Sub-basin area

1 150,1km²

Upstream area

1 150,1km²

Discharge

1,03m³/s

Mean elev.

418m

Administrative coverage

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

3 intersecting protected areas

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

5 388 distinct species · 207 407 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

207 407 obs · 32 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 49 711
28 071–49 710
1 626–28 070
336–1 625
< 336

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 33 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie
RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation
StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Fafa : 26 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 32 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées
33
Interactions affichées
32
Connectance
0.061
Patrimoniales
1
Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

18,7°C

Annual rain

996mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,17

Runoff

305mm/an

PET

1 209mm

AET

845mm

Mean slope

8,3°

Water table

445cm

Forest

50%

Crops

32%

Urban

10%

Protected

2%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)