HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081648020
Bassin de Xuka
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 : Chris Hani
Sub-basin area
453,3km²
Upstream area
1 198,8km²
Discharge
5,49m³/s
Mean elev.
916m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Xuka428 km²
- Bassin de Xuka318 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 452.9 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
272 distinct species · 435 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 Xuka : 15 espèces reliées par 23 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.1%, 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°
16,9°C
Annual rain
653mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
169mm/an
PET
1 380mm
AET
553mm
Mean slope
8,5°
Water table
582cm
Forest
56%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)