Rivière· 28 segments
Little Tugela
Crosses 1 administrative regions : Uthukela
Total length
72km
Max discharge
4,9m³/s
Max Strahler
4
Segments matched
28
River geography1 admin regions · 0 communes
1 administrative regions crossed (GADM L2)
- UthukelaKwaZulu-Natal · South Africa87.8 kmin this dpt
2 intersecting protected areas
Maloti-Drakensberg Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
Umphafa Private Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
1 page = 1 named river (aggregation of 28 HydroRIVERS v10 segments). Spatial join cached after first hit.
Species present
122 distinct species · 330 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 Little Tugela : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 21 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology (HydroRIVERS v10)
Total length
72km
Max discharge
4,9m³/s
Max Strahler
4
Segments matched
28
HydroRIVERS v1.0 (Lehner et al. 2019) aggregated by name + main_riv → 1 entity = 1 named river.