HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081657830
Bassin de Olifantsrivier
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, Eden
Sub-basin area
1 112,6km²
Upstream area
1 112,6km²
Discharge
2,16m³/s
Mean elev.
965m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 896.7 km²80.6% of basin
- 215.5 km²19.4% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Cape Floral Region Protected Areas
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
101.51 km² overlap
Swartberg-Oos Mountain Catchment Area
IUCN Not ReportedMountain Catchment Area
22.90 km² overlap
Blue Hill Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
22.48 km² overlap
Sustersdal_Private_Nature_Reserve.pdf
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
9.28 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 452 distinct species · 22 506 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Olifantsrivier : 21 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 35 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
14,7°C
Annual rain
570mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,55
Runoff
83mm/an
PET
1 264mm
AET
486mm
Mean slope
7,2°
Water table
575cm
Forest
0%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)