World Heritage Site (natural or mixed) · bwa
Okavango Delta
- Area
- 20 443 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Applicable
- Year
- 2014
Overview
- Designation
- World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
- Established
- 2014
- Managing authority
- Not Reported
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
3 018 distinct species · 338 984 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 21 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 Okavango Delta : 17 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 21 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 9.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology43 basins · 50 lakes · 15 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
654,4km
Lake surface here
28,70km²
Basins crossed
43
Max stream order
7
Max drainage
251 265km²
Discharge in basins
830,2m³/s
Mean precip.
468mm/an
Mean T°
22,2°C
Moisture idx
-0,75
Mean runoff
18mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
958m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Khwaisub-area2 739 km²overlap2228.66 km²11%
- Bassin de Selindasub-area4 020 km²overlap1866.77 km²9%
- Bassin de Savuti Channelsub-area4 728,4 km²overlap1751.38 km²9%
- Bassin de Okavangosub-area1 399,7 km²overlap1334.85 km²7%
- Basin #22530sub-area2 385,1 km²overlap1190.75 km²6%
- Basin #10780sub-area1 230,6 km²overlap1091.29 km²5%
- Basin #16300sub-area1 379,1 km²overlap953.55 km²5%
- Bassin de Thamalakane Riversub-area4 520,2 km²overlap941.00 km²5%
- Basin #09770sub-area805,8 km²overlap803.37 km²4%
34 more basinssorted by overlap
- Basin #99560sub-area774,3 km²overlap771.92 km²4%
- Basin #08100sub-area716,9 km²overlap714.78 km²3%
- Bassin de Selindasub-area707,7 km²overlap689.18 km²3%
- Bassin de Okavangosub-area1 483,2 km²overlap482.69 km²2%
- Basin #01570sub-area446,9 km²overlap445.56 km²2%
- Bassin de Thaogesub-area665 km²overlap381.24 km²2%
- Bassin de Gomoti Riversub-area365,1 km²overlap363.96 km²2%
- Basin #08110sub-area343,1 km²overlap342.06 km²2%
- Bassin de Boro Riversub-area490,9 km²overlap337.04 km²2%
- Bassin de Gomoti Riversub-area750,4 km²overlap324.54 km²2%
- Bassin de Gomoti Riversub-area320,1 km²overlap319.12 km²2%
- Basin #14100sub-area322,5 km²overlap317.62 km²2%
- Basin #01560sub-area310,5 km²overlap309.53 km²2%
- Bassin de Thaogesub-area1 285,9 km²overlap287.38 km²1%
- Basin #05180sub-area281,8 km²overlap280.94 km²1%
- Basin #14210sub-area290 km²overlap279.96 km²1%
- Basin #99520sub-area257,7 km²overlap256.87 km²1%
- Basin #09890sub-area255,4 km²overlap254.69 km²1%
- Bassin de Kunyeresub-area732 km²overlap242.70 km²1%
- Bassin de Thaogesub-area1 869,3 km²overlap205.05 km²1%
- Bassin de Okavangosub-area160,5 km²overlap131.59 km²1%
- Bassin de Okavangosub-area319,7 km²overlap124.98 km²1%
- Bassin de Thaogesub-area1 325,6 km²overlap90.77 km²0%
- Bassin de Selindasub-area112,9 km²overlap81.56 km²0%
- Bassin de Selindasub-area131,3 km²overlap61.44 km²0%
- Bassin de Thamalakane Riversub-area573,7 km²overlap44.46 km²0%
- Bassin de Okavangosub-area196,3 km²overlap32.75 km²0%
- Bassin de Kwandosub-area68,4 km²overlap26.02 km²0%
- Basin #88380sub-area355,5 km²overlap25.58 km²0%
- Bassin de Nxamaseresub-area251,1 km²overlap19.14 km²0%
- Basin #86780sub-area667,5 km²overlap13.37 km²0%
- Bassin de Kwandosub-area1 399,1 km²overlap10.82 km²0%
- Bassin de Selindasub-area952,8 km²overlap7.58 km²0%
- Basin #94250sub-area345,5 km²overlap4.96 km²0%
Lakes (50, top by area)
- Lake #82662area1,8 km²avg depth0.5 m
- Lake #82666area1,6 km²avg depth1.1 m
- Lake #82677area1,6 km²avg depth0.8 m
- Lake #82652area1,5 km²avg depth0.8 m
- Lake #82615area1,3 km²avg depth0.6 m
- Lake #82674area1,2 km²avg depth0.5 m
- Lake #82608area1,2 km²avg depth0.5 m
- Lake #82661area1,1 km²avg depth0.5 m
- Xacanaxa Lagoonarea1 km²avg depth0.5 m
41 more lakes
- Ngoma Lagunearea1 km²avg depth0.5 m
- Lac 1415836area1 km²avg depth0.6 m
- Lac 1415859area1 km²avg depth1.2 m
- Lac 1415603area0,7 km²avg depth1.1 m
- Lac 1415714area0,7 km²avg depth1.6 m
- Lac 1415715area0,7 km²avg depth0.9 m
- Lac 1415729area0,6 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lac 1415858area0,6 km²avg depth1.9 m
- Lac 1415861area0,6 km²avg depth1.5 m
- Lac 1415796area0,6 km²avg depth0.8 m
- Lac 1415776area0,6 km²avg depth0.8 m
- Lac 1415686area0,5 km²avg depth1.4 m
- Lac 1415597area0,5 km²avg depth2.0 m
- Lac 1415793area0,4 km²avg depth0.9 m
- Lac 1415699area0,4 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lac 1415703area0,4 km²avg depth0.7 m
- Lac 1415722area0,4 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lac 1415726area0,4 km²avg depth1.1 m
- Lac 1415656area0,4 km²avg depth0.6 m
- Lac 1415740area0,4 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lac 1415685area0,3 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lac 1415708area0,3 km²avg depth1.2 m
- Lac 1415890area0,3 km²avg depth1.5 m
- Lac 1415853area0,3 km²avg depth1.7 m
- Lac 1415819area0,3 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lac 1415871area0,3 km²avg depth0.7 m
- Lac 1415773area0,3 km²avg depth1.4 m
- Lac 1415694area0,3 km²avg depth0.7 m
- Lac 1415778area0,3 km²avg depth0.5 m
- Lac 1415869area0,3 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lac 1415892area0,3 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lac 1415743area0,3 km²avg depth1.2 m
- Lac 1415839area0,3 km²avg depth0.6 m
- Lac 1415752area0,3 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lac 1415444area0,3 km²avg depth3.2 m
- Lac 1415705area0,3 km²avg depth0.5 m
- Lac 1415872area0,3 km²avg depth1.2 m
- Lac 1415816area0,3 km²avg depth0.5 m
- Lac 1415772area0,3 km²avg depth0.9 m
- Lac 1415949area0,3 km²avg depth0.9 m
- Lac 1415628area0,3 km²avg depth1.1 m
Rivers / streams (15, ord ≥ 4)
- Okavangoord 7len here241.68 km23%total1048 km
- Selindaord 6len here126.17 km99%total128 km
- Khwaiord 5len here63.77 km66%total97 km
- Gomoti Riverord 3len here61.02 km82%total74 km
- Thaogeord 7len here57.47 km18%total323 km
- Selinda Spillwayord 3len here38.73 km100%total39 km
- Maunachiraord 3len here17.26 km100%total17 km
- Mbudi Riverord 4len here17.25 km42%total41 km
- Boro Riverord 7len here12.37 km37%total34 km
- travel long roadord 5len here7.08 km100%total7 km
- Thamalakane Riverord 5len here4.97 km5%total101 km
- Gogathebeord 1len here2.83 km100%total3 km
3 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
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
- -19.15078, 23.04948
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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.