HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081560440
Bassin de Brak
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 : Capricorn
Sub-basin area
306,9km²
Upstream area
1 189,7km²
Discharge
0,5m³/s
Mean elev.
959m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Brak351 km²
- Bassin de Brak24 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 306.2 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Blouberg Private Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
130.49 km² overlap
Blouberg Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
29.46 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 082 distinct species · 6 773 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 16 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 Brak : 15 espèces reliées par 11 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 9.2%, 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°
19,4°C
Annual rain
489mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,70
Runoff
15mm/an
PET
1 621mm
AET
412mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
393cm
Forest
39%
Crops
13%
Urban
10%
Protected
43%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)