HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081606940
Bassin de Mooirivier
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 : Dr Kenneth Kaunda, West Rand
Sub-basin area
682,9km²
Upstream area
3 965,3km²
Discharge
2,71m³/s
Mean elev.
1 441m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10816043201583 km²
- Bassin de Mooirivier673 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 657.1 km²96.4% of basin
- 24.6 km²3.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Boskopdam Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
26.71 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 079 distinct species · 51 624 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Mooirivier : 32 espèces reliées par 31 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 4.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
16,3°C
Annual rain
628mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,59
Runoff
20mm/an
PET
1 517mm
AET
531mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
495cm
Forest
0%
Crops
50%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)