HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081651010
Bassin de Olifants 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 1 administrative regions : West Coast
Sub-basin area
627,1km²
Upstream area
2 051,9km²
Discharge
8,78m³/s
Mean elev.
453m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Hex River134 km²
- Bassin de Olifants River133 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 626.7 km²100.0% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Cape Floral Region Protected Areas
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
67.64 km² overlap
Sederberg Mountain Catchment Area
IUCN Not ReportedMountain Catchment Area
58.02 km² overlap
Sederberg Wilderness Area
IUCN Not ReportedForest Wilderness Area
48.97 km² overlap
Skimmelberg Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
11.43 km² overlap
Ramskop Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
0.64 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 884 distinct species · 36 812 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 Olifants River : 34 espèces reliées par 52 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 5.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
17,2°C
Annual rain
336mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,78
Runoff
71mm/an
PET
1 540mm
AET
285mm
Mean slope
11,4°
Water table
824cm
Forest
4%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
17%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)