HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080015630
Bassin de Groenrivier
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 : Namakwa, West Coast
Sub-basin area
819,4km²
Upstream area
4 670,1km²
Discharge
0,64m³/s
Mean elev.
167m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Groenrivier1073 km²
- Bassin de Swartdoring286 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 750.3 km²91.7% of basin
- 68.1 km²8.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Namaqua National Park
IUCN Not ReportedNational Park
22.69 km² overlap
Namaqua National Park Marine Protected Area
IUCN Not ReportedMarine Protected Area
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
535 distinct species · 1 387 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 Groenrivier : 34 espèces reliées par 38 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 4.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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
164mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,89
Runoff
6mm/an
PET
1 491mm
AET
139mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
947cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)