HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081556070
Bassin de Swakop 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 1 administrative regions : Karibib
Sub-basin area
1 265,4km²
Upstream area
17 399,5km²
Discharge
8,09m³/s
Mean elev.
921m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tsaobis954 km²
- Bassin de Swakop River78 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Namib-Naukluft
IUCN IINational Park
114.72 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
256 distinct species · 6 971 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 Swakop River : 17 espèces reliées par 27 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.8%, 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°
20,7°C
Annual rain
123mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,93
Runoff
17mm/an
PET
1 832mm
AET
101mm
Mean slope
5,7°
Water table
1 010cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)