HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081632760
Bassin de Senqu
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.
Sub-basin area
530,4km²
Upstream area
3 606,5km²
Discharge
29,7m³/s
Mean elev.
2 341m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Khubelu935 km²
- Bassin de Libibing River129 km²
0 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
1 intersecting protected areas
Maloti Drakensberg
IUCN Not ReportedConservation and Development Area
214.37 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
180 distinct species · 794 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 Senqu : 26 espèces reliées par 38 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
10,7°C
Annual rain
661mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,42
Runoff
185mm/an
PET
1 145mm
AET
562mm
Mean slope
15,3°
Water table
688cm
Forest
0%
Crops
18%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)