HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081616360
Bassin · #1081616360
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 : Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati
Sub-basin area
838,6km²
Upstream area
838,7km²
Discharge
0,89m³/s
Mean elev.
1 314m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 837.3 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Vuurfontein Private Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
16.96 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
349 distinct species · 3 664 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 21 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 · #1081616360 : 17 espèces reliées par 21 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
17,3°C
Annual rain
493mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,70
Runoff
31mm/an
PET
1 639mm
AET
416mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
352cm
Forest
0%
Crops
31%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)