HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081629090
Bassin de Modder 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 4 administrative regions : Frances Baard, Lejweleputswa, Pixley ka Seme, Xhariep
Sub-basin area
1 335km²
Upstream area
12 890km²
Discharge
10,98m³/s
Mean elev.
1 181m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 3 basins
- Bassin · #10800580801149 km²
- Bassin · #1081628790260 km²
- Bassin de Modder River160 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 692.3 km²51.9% of basin
- 368.9 km²27.7% of basin
- 267.9 km²20.1% of basin
- 4.2 km²0.3% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Grootfontein Private Nature Reserve - Jacobsdal
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
8.43 km² overlap
Didimala Game Farm
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
7.78 km² overlap
Koedoesrand Game Lodge
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
4.88 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 639 distinct species · 82 871 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 20 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 Modder River : 14 espèces reliées par 22 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
17,8°C
Annual rain
442mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
25mm/an
PET
1 634mm
AET
373mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
342cm
Forest
0%
Crops
4%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)