HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081609120
Bassin de Kuruman
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 : John Taolo Gaetsewe, Siyanda
Sub-basin area
559,2km²
Upstream area
27 781,1km²
Discharge
9,66m³/s
Mean elev.
954m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kuruman477 km²
- Bassin de Kuruman104 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 523.1 km²93.7% of basin
- 35.1 km²6.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
325 distinct species · 2 488 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 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 Kuruman : 18 espèces reliées par 27 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 9.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
19,6°C
Annual rain
210mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,88
Runoff
8mm/an
PET
1 795mm
AET
175mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
145cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)