HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081653560
Bassin de Great Fish 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 2 administrative regions : Cacadu, Chris Hani
Sub-basin area
395,3km²
Upstream area
17 480,3km²
Discharge
5,59m³/s
Mean elev.
898m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Great Fish River185 km²
- Bassin de Great Fish River168 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 393.8 km²99.7% of basin
- 1.2 km²0.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mountain Zebra-Camdeboo Protected Environment
IUCN Not ReportedProtected Environment
1.24 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
856 distinct species · 4 317 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 Great Fish River : 23 espèces reliées par 25 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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
500mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,65
Runoff
22mm/an
PET
1 442mm
AET
424mm
Mean slope
10,7°
Water table
829cm
Forest
67%
Crops
17%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)