Marine Protected Area · nam
Namibian Islands Marine Protected Area
- Area
- 9 492 km²
- IUCN cat.
- VI
- Year
- 2009
Overview
- Designation
- Marine Protected Area
- IUCN category
- VI · Aire protégée avec utilisation durable
Conservation + utilisation durable des ressources
- Established
- 2009
- Managing authority
- Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
867 distinct species · 29 263 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Namibian Islands Marine Protected Area : 31 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 36 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.1%, 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).
Hydrology23 basins · 0 lakes · 1 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Basins crossed
23
Max stream order
1
Max drainage
3 100km²
Discharge in basins
0,0m³/s
Mean precip.
25mm/an
Mean T°
15,8°C
Moisture idx
-0,98
Mean runoff
4mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
157m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Lüderitz Speed Challenge Canalsub-area3 100 km²overlap107.05 km²1%
- Basin #16410sub-area1 311,4 km²overlap24.75 km²0%
- Basin #15990sub-area307,4 km²overlap13.02 km²0%
- Basin #16530sub-area2 105,1 km²overlap11.66 km²0%
- Basin #16260sub-area130,4 km²overlap6.47 km²0%
- Basin #16280sub-area182,2 km²overlap5.60 km²0%
- Basin #16370sub-area138,1 km²overlap5.24 km²0%
- Basin #16330sub-area128 km²overlap3.62 km²0%
- Basin #15970sub-area48,5 km²overlap3.00 km²0%
14 more basinssorted by overlap
- Basin #16310sub-area5,7 km²overlap1.93 km²0%
- Basin #15860sub-area2 342 km²overlap0.77 km²0%
- Basin #16300sub-area514,9 km²overlap0.19 km²0%
- Basin #16250sub-area752,6 km²overlap0.17 km²0%
- Basin #16400sub-area243,1 km²overlap0.15 km²0%
- Basin #16320sub-area316,2 km²overlap0.14 km²0%
- Basin #16050sub-area0,3 km²overlap0.13 km²0%
- Basin #16520sub-area1 639,2 km²overlap0.05 km²0%
- Basin #16360sub-area263,2 km²overlap0.04 km²0%
- Basin #15980sub-area577,9 km²overlap0.03 km²0%
- Basin #16060sub-area460,3 km²overlap0.02 km²0%
- Basin #16270sub-area957,4 km²overlap0.01 km²0%
- Basin #15960sub-area1 921,5 km²overlap0.01 km²0%
- Basin #16040sub-area560,9 km²overlap0.00 km²0%
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
- -26.22003, 14.84069
- Open in maps
- OpenStreetMap → · Satellite →
Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.