HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081547720
Bassin de Limpopo
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 across 2 countries : Beitbridge, Vhembe
Sub-basin area
2,6km²
Upstream area
185 166,3km²
Discharge
72,34m³/s
Mean elev.
499m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Limpopo836 km²
- Bassin de Limpopo173 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1.2 km²48.8% of basin
- 1.2 km²46.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Skutwater Ranch Private Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
0.95 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
134 distinct species · 257 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 Limpopo : 29 espèces + 0 bulles famille, 23 interactions GloBI documentées sur 3 types (connectance 5.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
22,4°C
Annual rain
316mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,83
Runoff
18mm/an
PET
1 811mm
AET
263mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
18cm
Forest
0%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
39%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)