Mountain Catchment Area · zaf
Matroosberg Mountain Catchment Area
- Area
- 825 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Reported
- Year
- 1979
Overview
- Designation
- Mountain Catchment Area
- Established
- 1979
- Managing authority
- Private Owners
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
2 171 distinct species · 15 471 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Matroosberg Mountain Catchment Area : 27 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) + 0 bulles famille, 16 interactions GloBI documentées sur 4 types (connectance 4.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology4 basins · 1 lakes · 23 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
95,8km
Lake surface here
0,18km²
Basins crossed
4
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
5 464km²
Discharge in basins
6,8m³/s
Mean precip.
501mm/an
Mean T°
14,3°C
Moisture idx
-0,61
Mean runoff
176mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
805m
Watersheds crossing here
Lakes (1, top by area)
Rivers / streams (23, ord ≥ 4)
- Amandelrivierord 3len here18.92 km80%total24 km
- Witelsord 1len here14.23 km100%total14 km
- Buffelshoekrivierord 1len here9.02 km100%total9 km
- Hex Riverord 4len here6.04 km8%total75 km
- Sanddrifklooford 2len here5.06 km71%total7 km
- Spekrivierord 2len here4.67 km83%total6 km
- Dassiesklooford 2len here4.61 km26%total18 km
- Valsrivierord 3len here4.50 km28%total16 km
- Kleinhoekklooford 1len here4.37 km45%total10 km
- Roosklooford 1len here4.36 km96%total5 km
- Witwaterord 3len here3.38 km45%total7 km
- Rowweklooford 1len here3.31 km100%total3 km
11 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Nuyrivierord 3len here2.66 km7%total37 km
- Waaihoekklooford 1len here2.36 km97%total2 km
- Waterklooford 1len here2.22 km9%total26 km
- Sandrivierord 1len here2.16 km48%total5 km
- Nonnarivierord 3len here1.78 km13%total13 km
- Klein Bosklooford 1len here0.97 km100%total1 km
- Breede Riverord 5len here0.64 km0%total362 km
- Koorivierord 3len here0.21 km5%total4 km
- Bosklooford 1len here0.16 km3%total5 km
- Hartbeesrivierord 1len here0.10 km1%total11 km
- Smalblaarrivierord 2len here0.05 km0%total16 km
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
- -33.46302, 19.54380
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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.