HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081617100
Bassin de Fish 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 2 administrative regions : Berseba, Karas
Sub-basin area
458,1km²
Upstream area
62 217,7km²
Discharge
15,15m³/s
Mean elev.
675m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Gaab2691 km²
- Bassin de Gaab75 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 266.9 km²58.3% of basin
- 190.5 km²41.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ai-Ais Hot Springs
IUCN IINational Park
266.70 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
401 distinct species · 2 651 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Fish River : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 28 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 5.3%, 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°
19,5°C
Annual rain
84mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,95
Runoff
13mm/an
PET
1 664mm
AET
69mm
Mean slope
10,7°
Water table
1 005cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
58%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)