National Park · bwa
Makgadikgadi Pans
- Area
- 4 892 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1992
Overview
- Designation
- National Park
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1992
- Managing authority
- Department of Wildlife and National Parks
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
634 distinct species · 6 963 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 19 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 Makgadikgadi Pans : 17 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 17 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology15 basins · 50 lakes · 1 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
55,7km
Lake surface here
568,04km²
Basins crossed
15
Max stream order
7
Max drainage
424 642km²
Discharge in basins
262,2m³/s
Mean precip.
377mm/an
Mean T°
21,8°C
Moisture idx
-0,79
Mean runoff
12mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
919m
Watersheds crossing here
- Basin #25210sub-area3 188,3 km²overlap2351.91 km²48%
- Basin #22730sub-area419,8 km²overlap418.57 km²9%
- Basin #22650sub-area1 153,9 km²overlap352.18 km²7%
- Bassin de Botetisub-area560,9 km²overlap335.77 km²7%
- Basin #48090sub-area1 542,2 km²overlap303.04 km²6%
- Basin #21660sub-area396,3 km²overlap279.93 km²6%
- Bassin de Botetisub-area2 669,5 km²overlap264.69 km²5%
- Bassin de Botetisub-area733,5 km²overlap184.47 km²4%
- Bassin de Botetisub-area193,7 km²overlap127.77 km²3%
6 more basinssorted by overlap
Lakes (50, top by area)
- Ntwetwe Panarea2 589,8 km²avg depth0.5 m
- Lake #1641area217,4 km²avg depth2.6 m
- Lake #16259area40,5 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lake #82795area7,3 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lake #82804area4 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lake #82796area4 km²avg depth1.7 m
- Lake #82783area3 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lake #82774area2,8 km²avg depth0.9 m
- Lake #82771area2,8 km²avg depth0.8 m
41 more lakes
- Lake #82775area2,4 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lake #82806area2,1 km²avg depth1.2 m
- Lake #82807area1,8 km²avg depth1.1 m
- Lake #82773area1,6 km²avg depth0.6 m
- Lake #82785area1,5 km²avg depth0.8 m
- Lake #82777area1,5 km²avg depth0.8 m
- Lake #82776area1,4 km²avg depth0.6 m
- Lake #82790area1,2 km²avg depth0.8 m
- Lake #82803area1,2 km²avg depth0.8 m
- Lake #82767area1,1 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lake #82780area1,1 km²avg depth0.7 m
- Lac 1416390area1 km²avg depth1.1 m
- Lac 1416639area1 km²avg depth1.7 m
- Lac 1416333area0,9 km²avg depth0.8 m
- Lac 1416576area0,9 km²avg depth1.7 m
- Lac 1416491area0,9 km²avg depth1.4 m
- Lac 1416383area0,9 km²avg depth1.5 m
- Lac 1416580area0,9 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lac 1416456area0,9 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lac 1416659area0,8 km²avg depth1.6 m
- Lac 1416546area0,8 km²avg depth1.1 m
- Lac 1416472area0,8 km²avg depth1.5 m
- Lac 1416555area0,7 km²avg depth0.9 m
- Lac 1416636area0,7 km²avg depth1.4 m
- Lac 1416652area0,7 km²avg depth2.2 m
- Lac 1416578area0,7 km²avg depth1.8 m
- Lac 1416655area0,7 km²avg depth1.9 m
- Lac 1416683area0,6 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lac 1416590area0,6 km²avg depth1.2 m
- Lac 1416430area0,6 km²avg depth1.5 m
- Lac 1416614area0,6 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lac 1416554area0,6 km²avg depth1.4 m
- Lac 1416619area0,6 km²avg depth1.9 m
- Lac 1416675area0,6 km²avg depth1.5 m
- Lac 1416412area0,6 km²avg depth1.7 m
- Lac 1416365area0,6 km²avg depth1.5 m
- Lac 1416653area0,5 km²avg depth1.9 m
- Lac 1416443area0,5 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lac 1416380area0,5 km²avg depth1.1 m
- Lac 1416592area0,5 km²avg depth1.5 m
- Lac 1416613area0,5 km²avg depth2.0 m
Rivers / streams (1, ord ≥ 4)
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- -20.50988, 24.81284
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.