HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081622900
Bassin de White Mfolozi 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 3 administrative regions : Umkhanyakude, Uthungulu, Zululand
Sub-basin area
1 506,8km²
Upstream area
5 302,6km²
Discharge
33,57m³/s
Mean elev.
435m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de White Mfolozi River984 km²
- Bassin de Mpembeni386 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 713.1 km²47.4% of basin
- 526.9 km²35.0% of basin
- 264.6 km²17.6% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Hluhluwe – iMfolozi Park
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
264.44 km² overlap
Umfolozi Game Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
264.34 km² overlap
Emakhosini Ophathe Heritage Park
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
111.15 km² overlap
Ophathe Game Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
88.21 km² overlap
Obuka Community Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
25.11 km² overlap
Emakhosini Heritage Park
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
24.26 km² overlap
Somopho Community Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
22.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 746 distinct species · 42 368 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 19 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 White Mfolozi River : 18 espèces reliées par 17 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (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°
20,1°C
Annual rain
890mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
243mm/an
PET
1 399mm
AET
752mm
Mean slope
7,3°
Water table
469cm
Forest
92%
Crops
31%
Urban
3%
Protected
25%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)