HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081590430
Bassin de Tolwane 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 2 administrative regions : Bojanala, City of Tshwane
Sub-basin area
1 134,8km²
Upstream area
1 134,9km²
Discharge
0,41m³/s
Mean elev.
1 106m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 924.2 km²81.6% of basin
- City of Tshwane208.4 km²18.4% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Borakalalo National Park
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
16.03 km² overlap
Koos Meintjies Private Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
13.51 km² overlap
Magaliesberg Protected Natural Environment
IUCN Not ReportedProtected Environment
1.42 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 527 distinct species · 61 776 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 de Tolwane River : 19 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 13 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.6%, 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°
19,1°C
Annual rain
618mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,63
Runoff
13mm/an
PET
1 669mm
AET
522mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
511cm
Forest
8%
Crops
16%
Urban
22%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)