HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080013820
Bassin de Mbashe 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 2 administrative regions : Amathole, O.R.Tambo
Sub-basin area
858,1km²
Upstream area
6 098,6km²
Discharge
37,48m³/s
Mean elev.
497m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mbashe River348 km²
- Bassin de Qunu229 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 741.3 km²86.5% of basin
- 115.8 km²13.5% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Dwesa-Cwebe Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
4.44 km² overlap
Dwesa-Cwebe Marine Protected Area
IUCN Not ReportedMarine Protected Area
1.18 km² overlap
Mountain Zebra-Camdeboo Protected Environment
IUCN Not ReportedProtected Environment
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
385 distinct species · 5 788 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 10 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 Mbashe River : 8 espèces reliées par 9 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 20.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
17,7°C
Annual rain
838mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
282mm/an
PET
1 241mm
AET
711mm
Mean slope
10,0°
Water table
553cm
Forest
60%
Crops
10%
Urban
1%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)