HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081656940
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 : Amathole, Cacadu
Sub-basin area
267km²
Upstream area
29 606,7km²
Discharge
23,93m³/s
Mean elev.
226m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ecca River366 km²
- Bassin de Great Fish River280 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 151.9 km²56.9% of basin
- 114.9 km²43.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lennox Sebe Game Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
0.70 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
377 distinct species · 1 493 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 : 31 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 27 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 4.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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
515mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,62
Runoff
98mm/an
PET
1 358mm
AET
437mm
Mean slope
6,8°
Water table
535cm
Forest
65%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)