HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081557920
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 4 administrative regions across 2 countries : Capricorn, Palapye, Tuli, Waterberg
Sub-basin area
478km²
Upstream area
102 105,3km²
Discharge
31,51m³/s
Mean elev.
813m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081559480381 km²
- Bassin de Limpopo146 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 255.7 km²53.6% of basin
- 167.6 km²35.1% of basin
- 43.7 km²9.2% of basin
- 9.8 km²2.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
I. J. van Vuuren Private Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
37.20 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
428 distinct species · 2 341 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 12 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 : 11 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 8 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 12.1%, 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°
21,3°C
Annual rain
386mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,78
Runoff
8mm/an
PET
1 761mm
AET
324mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
266cm
Forest
0%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)