HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081652160
Bassin de Rhenoster
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
836,6km²
Upstream area
836,6km²
Discharge
0,37m³/s
Mean elev.
872m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 497.8 km²59.5% of basin
- 338.3 km²40.5% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Tankwa Karoo National Park
IUCN Not ReportedNational Park
364.35 km² overlap
Oorlogskloof Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
4.62 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 175 distinct species · 16 698 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Rhenoster : 31 espèces reliées par 45 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.8%, 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°
16,3°C
Annual rain
165mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,89
Runoff
14mm/an
PET
1 570mm
AET
139mm
Mean slope
7,0°
Water table
887cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
65%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)