HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081570200
Bassin de Klein Letaba
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 : Mopani, Vhembe
Sub-basin area
2 513,6km²
Upstream area
5 502,8km²
Discharge
24,52m³/s
Mean elev.
456m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Klein Letaba1144 km²
- Bassin de Middle Letaba River232 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2310.8 km²92.2% of basin
- 196.8 km²7.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kruger National Park
IUCN Not ReportedNational Park
545.68 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 003 distinct species · 36 512 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 20 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 Klein Letaba : 19 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 14 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.4%, 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°
22,0°C
Annual rain
585mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,64
Runoff
99mm/an
PET
1 642mm
AET
496mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
291cm
Forest
70%
Crops
4%
Urban
3%
Protected
32%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)