HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081481370
Bassin de Gwashuui
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 : Ompundja, Uuvudhiya
Sub-basin area
36,9km²
Upstream area
38 284km²
Discharge
36,24m³/s
Mean elev.
1 086m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 3 basins
- Bassin de Gwashuui3017 km²
- Bassin de Cuvelai1233 km²
- Bassin de Gwashuui136 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 19.6 km²53.4% of basin
- 17.1 km²46.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Iipumbu ya Tshilongo
IUCN Not ReportedCommunal Conservancy
16.56 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
50 distinct species · 100 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 Gwashuui : 10 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 6 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 10.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (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°
22,6°C
Annual rain
441mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,77
Runoff
14mm/an
PET
1 925mm
AET
370mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
23cm
Forest
0%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
45%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)