HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081652130
Bassin de Tankwa
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 : Cape Winelands, Namakwa
Sub-basin area
199,7km²
Upstream area
3 476,3km²
Discharge
1,44m³/s
Mean elev.
410m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tankwa1187 km²
- Bassin de Rhenoster837 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 137.6 km²69.0% of basin
- 61.9 km²31.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Tankwa Karoo National Park
IUCN Not ReportedNational Park
57.25 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
373 distinct species · 8 436 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 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 Tankwa : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 26 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
18,8°C
Annual rain
128mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,92
Runoff
22mm/an
PET
1 689mm
AET
106mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
458cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
83%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)