HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081570290
Bassin de Groot Letaba River
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 : Mopani
Sub-basin area
569,9km²
Upstream area
4 967,1km²
Discharge
23,88m³/s
Mean elev.
394m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Groot Letaba River1259 km²
- Bassin de Molototsi1183 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 568.6 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Letaba Ranch Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
86.40 km² overlap
Rondalia-Letaba Private Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
80.48 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
400 distinct species · 5 149 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 21 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 Groot Letaba River : 18 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 20 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
22,3°C
Annual rain
503mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,70
Runoff
61mm/an
PET
1 674mm
AET
424mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
303cm
Forest
46%
Crops
3%
Urban
2%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)