HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081591250
Bassin de Olifants
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 : Sekhukhune
Sub-basin area
285,9km²
Upstream area
13 503,5km²
Discharge
8,74m³/s
Mean elev.
1 065m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Olifants854 km²
- Bassin de Olifants76 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 285.3 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
336 distinct species · 2 307 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 18 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 Olifants : 16 espèces reliées par 12 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
19,5°C
Annual rain
646mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,62
Runoff
18mm/an
PET
1 705mm
AET
544mm
Mean slope
5,4°
Water table
655cm
Forest
57%
Crops
18%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)