HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081634490
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
439,2km²
Upstream area
8 692,8km²
Discharge
66,28m³/s
Mean elev.
2 233m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mashai River341 km²
- Bassin de Makurusepane River96 km²
0 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
1 intersecting protected areas
Maloti Drakensberg
IUCN Not ReportedConservation and Development Area
196.71 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
207 distinct species · 614 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 31 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
11,5°C
Annual rain
637mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,46
Runoff
162mm/an
PET
1 200mm
AET
541mm
Mean slope
15,3°
Water table
716cm
Forest
0%
Crops
11%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)