HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081650580
Bassin de Vlekpoortrivier
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 : Chris Hani, Joe Gqabi
Sub-basin area
1 555,8km²
Upstream area
1 555,8km²
Discharge
0,49m³/s
Mean elev.
1 325m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1552.6 km²99.9% of basin
- 1.9 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Commandodrift Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
20.49 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
437 distinct species · 4 029 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 14 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 Vlekpoortrivier : 12 espèces reliées par 9 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
14,5°C
Annual rain
431mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,70
Runoff
11mm/an
PET
1 431mm
AET
366mm
Mean slope
3,7°
Water table
616cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)