HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081580760
Bassin de Metsimotlhabe
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 4 administrative regions : Gaborone, Kgatleng, Kweneng North, Kweneng South
Sub-basin area
761,2km²
Upstream area
3 651,6km²
Discharge
1,22m³/s
Mean elev.
1 032m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081582520999 km²
- Bassin de Metsimotlhabe279 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 404.6 km²53.3% of basin
- 220.3 km²29.0% of basin
- 100.8 km²13.3% of basin
- 33.8 km²4.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
720 distinct species · 10 050 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 Metsimotlhabe : 19 espèces reliées par 25 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
19,8°C
Annual rain
467mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
9mm/an
PET
1 703mm
AET
394mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
424cm
Forest
7%
Crops
2%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)