HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081563420
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
1,7km²
Upstream area
83 429,9km²
Discharge
28,46m³/s
Mean elev.
801m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Limpopo1058 km²
- Bassin · #1081563410948 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1.1 km²63.9% of basin
- 0.6 km²36.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
160 distinct species · 297 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 9 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 : 7 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 6 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 16.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
21,2°C
Annual rain
367mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,79
Runoff
10mm/an
PET
1 790mm
AET
308mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
14cm
Forest
0%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)