HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081561060
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 2 administrative regions across 2 countries : Tuli, Waterberg
Sub-basin area
42,5km²
Upstream area
97 903,2km²
Discharge
31,01m³/s
Mean elev.
803m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lephalala River791 km²
- Bassin de Limpopo358 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 36.7 km²86.6% of basin
- 5.7 km²13.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Spoorsny Private Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
2.94 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
116 distinct species · 380 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 : 23 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 24 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
21,5°C
Annual rain
387mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,78
Runoff
9mm/an
PET
1 772mm
AET
325mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
125cm
Forest
0%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)