HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081587990
Bassin · #1081587990
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 : Gemsbok
Sub-basin area
194km²
Upstream area
2 625,3km²
Discharge
0,08m³/s
Mean elev.
1 052m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081586630656 km²
- Bassin · #1081586560249 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Gemsbok
IUCN IbNational Park
193.60 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
80 distinct species · 347 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 19 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 · #1081587990 : 15 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 15 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 8.8%, 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°
20,2°C
Annual rain
239mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,87
Runoff
2mm/an
PET
1 871mm
AET
198mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
43cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)