HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081588570
Bassin de Fish 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 3 administrative regions : Gibeon, Mariental Rural, Mariental Urban
Sub-basin area
858km²
Upstream area
15 170,4km²
Discharge
1,13m³/s
Mean elev.
1 118m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Aub335 km²
- Bassin de Fish River132 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 579.6 km²67.7% of basin
- 210.5 km²24.6% of basin
- 66.0 km²7.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Huibes
IUCN Not ReportedCommunal Conservancy
5.66 km² overlap
Hardap Recreation Resort
IUCN VNational Park
3.74 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
477 distinct species · 2 604 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 26 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 Fish River : 21 espèces reliées par 25 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
20,5°C
Annual rain
212mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,88
Runoff
9mm/an
PET
1 835mm
AET
177mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
272cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
2%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)