Ruisseau· 2 segments
Lourens
Crosses 1 administrative regions : City of Cape Town
Total length
15km
Max discharge
1,5m³/s
Max Strahler
2
Segments matched
2
River geography1 admin regions · 0 communes
1 administrative regions crossed (GADM L2)
- City of Cape TownWestern Cape · South Africa15.0 kmin this dpt
3 intersecting protected areas
Hottentots-Holland Mountain Catchment Area
IUCN Not ReportedMountain Catchment Area
Lourens River Protected Natural Environment
IUCN Not ReportedProtected Environment
Vergelegen Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
1 page = 1 named river (aggregation of 2 HydroRIVERS v10 segments). Spatial join cached after first hit.
Species present
2 875 distinct species · 78 540 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Lourens : 31 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 22 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 4.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (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
15km
Max discharge
1,5m³/s
Max Strahler
2
Segments matched
2
HydroRIVERS v1.0 (Lehner et al. 2019) aggregated by name + main_riv → 1 entity = 1 named river.