HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081652820
Bassin de Gamka 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 : Central Karoo
Sub-basin area
591,7km²
Upstream area
981,9km²
Discharge
0,4m³/s
Mean elev.
871m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lemoenfontein195 km²
- Bassin de Gamka River195 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 591.4 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Karoo National Park
IUCN Not ReportedNational Park
102.15 km² overlap
Steenbokkie Private Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
34.44 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 534 distinct species · 115 240 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 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 Gamka River : 21 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 21 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.0%, 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°
17,5°C
Annual rain
221mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,86
Runoff
10mm/an
PET
1 541mm
AET
186mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
490cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
2%
Protected
17%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)