HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081657700
Bassin de Sundays 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 : Cacadu
Sub-basin area
854km²
Upstream area
17 628,3km²
Discharge
10m³/s
Mean elev.
451m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Volkersrivier631 km²
- Bassin de Sundays River32 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 853.6 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Addo Elephant National Park
IUCN Not ReportedNational Park
477.98 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
935 distinct species · 7 682 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Sundays River : 38 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 35 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 4.3%, 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°
17,7°C
Annual rain
351mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,76
Runoff
34mm/an
PET
1 479mm
AET
298mm
Mean slope
11,6°
Water table
953cm
Forest
57%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
42%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)