HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081610780
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 1 administrative regions : Siyanda
Sub-basin area
724,9km²
Upstream area
33 508,8km²
Discharge
10,4m³/s
Mean elev.
918m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kuruman485 km²
- Bassin de Kuruman159 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 723.7 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
129 distinct species · 1 005 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 : 20 espèces reliées par 33 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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
195mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,89
Runoff
6mm/an
PET
1 813mm
AET
162mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
183cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)