HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081657200
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 2 administrative regions : Central Karoo, Eden
Sub-basin area
914,4km²
Upstream area
12 455,2km²
Discharge
6,61m³/s
Mean elev.
731m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Gamka River2128 km²
- Bassin de Sandrivier1146 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 912.1 km²99.8% of basin
- 1.8 km²0.2% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Cape Floral Region Protected Areas
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
285.27 km² overlap
Gamkapoort Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
40.47 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 594 distinct species · 16 818 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 : 16 espèces reliées par 28 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.3%, 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°
15,3°C
Annual rain
235mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,83
Runoff
16mm/an
PET
1 443mm
AET
201mm
Mean slope
8,6°
Water table
954cm
Forest
0%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)