HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081652920
Bassin de Doringrivier
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
588,1km²
Upstream area
3 794,8km²
Discharge
3,16m³/s
Mean elev.
632m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Voetpadskloof310 km²
- Bassin de Doringrivier5 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 502.3 km²85.5% of basin
- 85.4 km²14.5% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Basjanskloof Private Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
5.41 km² overlap
Groenfontein Private Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
0.24 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
859 distinct species · 18 330 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Doringrivier : 26 espèces reliées par 27 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.2%, 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°
16,9°C
Annual rain
204mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,87
Runoff
46mm/an
PET
1 548mm
AET
173mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
394cm
Forest
0%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)