HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081621650
Bassin de Buffalo 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 : Amajuba, Umzinyathi
Sub-basin area
247km²
Upstream area
6 952,8km²
Discharge
16,01m³/s
Mean elev.
1 209m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081620030716 km²
- Bassin de Buffalo River89 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 246.4 km²99.9% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
207 distinct species · 994 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 de Buffalo River : 19 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 15 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
17,2°C
Annual rain
786mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
100mm/an
PET
1 474mm
AET
664mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
399cm
Forest
17%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)