HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081644800
Bassin de Tsitsa 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 2 administrative regions : Joe Gqabi, O.R.Tambo
Sub-basin area
491,8km²
Upstream area
2 049,7km²
Discharge
12,05m³/s
Mean elev.
1 223m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tsitsa635 km²
- Bassin de Mooi River24 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 294.5 km²59.9% of basin
- 196.9 km²40.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
322 distinct species · 1 179 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 Tsitsa River : 34 espèces reliées par 40 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 4.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
15,6°C
Annual rain
791mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
191mm/an
PET
1 335mm
AET
671mm
Mean slope
10,2°
Water table
728cm
Forest
60%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)