HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081616300
Bassin de Mkuze 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 : Umkhanyakude
Sub-basin area
47km²
Upstream area
3 570,7km²
Discharge
11,84m³/s
Mean elev.
45m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mkuze River1046 km²
- Bassin de Mkuze River423 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 46.9 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Mkuzi Game Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
23.57 km² overlap
St. Lucia System
IUCN IIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
7.67 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 037 distinct species · 67 778 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 13 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 Mkuze River : 11 espèces reliées par 12 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 13.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
22,1°C
Annual rain
744mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
156mm/an
PET
1 512mm
AET
629mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
81cm
Forest
74%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
50%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)