HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080013570
Bassin de Mzintlava
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 : O.R.Tambo
Sub-basin area
859,1km²
Upstream area
859,1km²
Discharge
5,45m³/s
Mean elev.
332m
Administrative coverage
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 843.1 km²98.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Pondoland Marine Protected Area
IUCN Not ReportedMarine Protected Area
17.50 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 509 distinct species · 17 988 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Mzintlava : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 29 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.1%, 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°
18,3°C
Annual rain
1 054mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,05
Runoff
496mm/an
PET
1 106mm
AET
893mm
Mean slope
7,6°
Water table
406cm
Forest
59%
Crops
15%
Urban
7%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)