HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081559590
Bassin de Rio 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 1 administrative regions : Chicualacuala
Sub-basin area
164,2km²
Upstream area
256 792,3km²
Discharge
168,3m³/s
Mean elev.
194m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Limpopo755 km²
- Bassin de Rio Limpopo398 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 163.8 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Limpopo
IUCN IINational Park
69.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
252 distinct species · 949 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 Rio Limpopo : 24 espèces reliées par 26 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
23,9°C
Annual rain
383mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,79
Runoff
41mm/an
PET
1 808mm
AET
322mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
279cm
Forest
77%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
40%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)