HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081606140
Bassin de Lusushwana
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 4 administrative regions : Mafutseni, Manzini North, Mthongwaneni, Nhlambeni
Sub-basin area
164,6km²
Upstream area
8 552,5km²
Discharge
51,78m³/s
Mean elev.
427m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Hlelo3600 km²
- Bassin de Ngwempisi River61 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 91.7 km²55.8% of basin
- 67.8 km²41.3% of basin
- 3.0 km²1.8% of basin
- 1.8 km²1.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Libhetse
IUCN VNature Reserve
3.69 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
508 distinct species · 6 666 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 16 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 Lusushwana : 15 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 10 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (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°
20,8°C
Annual rain
708mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
214mm/an
PET
1 528mm
AET
599mm
Mean slope
5,0°
Water table
442cm
Forest
93%
Crops
10%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)