HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081560350
Bassin de Mphongolo
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 : Vhembe
Sub-basin area
72,5km²
Upstream area
1 636,3km²
Discharge
3,66m³/s
Mean elev.
335m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Shisha801 km²
- Bassin de Mphongolo762 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 72.3 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kruger National Park
IUCN Not ReportedNational Park
72.28 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
451 distinct species · 18 405 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 11 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 Mphongolo : 10 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 8 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 14.5%, 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°
22,8°C
Annual rain
469mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
54mm/an
PET
1 753mm
AET
397mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
161cm
Forest
99%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)