HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081576090
Bassin de Rio 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 3 administrative regions : Chókwè, Mabalane, Massingir
Sub-basin area
736,9km²
Upstream area
261 202,8km²
Discharge
158,91m³/s
Mean elev.
93m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Limpopo1135 km²
- Bassin de Rio Limpopo338 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Mabalane654.5 km²89.0% of basin
- Massingir80.6 km²11.0% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Limpopo
IUCN IINational Park
415.54 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
79 distinct species · 118 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 10 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 Rio Limpopo : 10 espèces reliées par 5 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,1°C
Annual rain
535mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,71
Runoff
43mm/an
PET
1 821mm
AET
459mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
137cm
Forest
76%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
54%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)