HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081649400
Bassin de Doringrivier
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 : Namakwa, West Coast
Sub-basin area
1 176,2km²
Upstream area
19 679km²
Discharge
26,07m³/s
Mean elev.
480m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Doringrivier973 km²
- Bassin de Broekkraalskloof201 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 869.2 km²73.9% of basin
- 306.2 km²26.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Cape Floral Region Protected Areas
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
30.80 km² overlap
Sederberg Wilderness Area
IUCN Not ReportedForest Wilderness Area
30.71 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 539 distinct species · 18 965 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Doringrivier : 27 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 33 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.2%, 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°
17,9°C
Annual rain
244mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,85
Runoff
40mm/an
PET
1 627mm
AET
205mm
Mean slope
8,1°
Water table
846cm
Forest
0%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)