HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081592480
Bassin de Elands 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 1 administrative regions : Bojanala
Sub-basin area
700,2km²
Upstream area
3 578,3km²
Discharge
1,67m³/s
Mean elev.
1 170m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081593570365 km²
- Bassin de Elands River1 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 698.7 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Pilanesberg National Park
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
333.64 km² overlap
McGregor Private Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
30.54 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 567 distinct species · 204 680 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 Elands River : 22 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 18 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.5%, 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°
19,0°C
Annual rain
639mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,61
Runoff
11mm/an
PET
1 641mm
AET
541mm
Mean slope
5,1°
Water table
689cm
Forest
45%
Crops
30%
Urban
5%
Protected
52%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)