HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080017510
Bassin de Uniab
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 : Khorixas, Sesfontein
Sub-basin area
556,3km²
Upstream area
4 174,8km²
Discharge
6,45m³/s
Mean elev.
349m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Uniab946 km²
- Bassin de Obob547 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 467.5 km²84.3% of basin
- 87.2 km²15.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Skeleton Coast Park
IUCN IINational Park
466.50 km² overlap
Palmwag
IUCN Not ReportedConcession
92.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
96 distinct species · 180 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 22 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 Uniab : 19 espèces reliées par 21 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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
52mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,96
Runoff
32mm/an
PET
1 305mm
AET
47mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
1 092cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)