HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081638530
Bassin de Mabele
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 1 administrative regions : Alfred Nzo
Sub-basin area
549,8km²
Upstream area
549,9km²
Discharge
2,77m³/s
Mean elev.
1 771m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 534.4 km²97.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Malekgalonyane Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
99.62 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
451 distinct species · 1 064 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Mabele : 27 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 48 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 6.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
14,1°C
Annual rain
683mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,48
Runoff
159mm/an
PET
1 321mm
AET
580mm
Mean slope
10,8°
Water table
576cm
Forest
59%
Crops
15%
Urban
0%
Protected
18%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)