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Richtersveld National Park
- Area
- 1 703 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Reported
- Year
- 1991
Overview
- Designation
- National Park
- Established
- 1991
- Managing authority
- South African National Parks
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
2 054 distinct species · 14 912 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 49 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 Richtersveld National Park : 37 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 54 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 4.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology9 basins · 0 lakes · 8 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
179,5km
Basins crossed
9
Max stream order
9
Max drainage
882 837km²
Discharge in basins
493,0m³/s
Mean precip.
70mm/an
Mean T°
17,6°C
Moisture idx
-0,95
Mean runoff
11mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
474m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Orange River (Oranje)sub-area1 058,7 km²overlap790.84 km²46%
- Bassin de Orange River (Oranje)sub-area2 656,2 km²overlap365.77 km²21%
- Bassin de Swartdoodsub-area594 km²overlap222.91 km²13%
- Bassin de Orange River (Oranje)sub-area667,5 km²overlap150.84 km²9%
- Basin #15760sub-area2 408,4 km²overlap78.93 km²5%
- Bassin de Nuabsub-area314,3 km²overlap59.29 km²3%
- Bassin de Annisriviersub-area554,8 km²overlap34.04 km²2%
- Bassin de Fish Riversub-area242,1 km²overlap0.08 km²0%
- Bassin de Gamchabsub-area929,5 km²overlap0.08 km²0%
Rivers / streams (8, ord ≥ 4)
- Orange River (Oranje)ord 9len here153.47 km23%total656 km
- Kouamsord 3len here21.42 km100%total21 km
- Nuabord 9len here2.34 km5%total50 km
- Gamchabord 9len here1.62 km1%total279 km
- Fish Riverord 7len here0.51 km0%total1258 km
- Boomord 3len here0.08 km0%total108 km
- Inaubord 2len here0.07 km0%total43 km
- Karinauibord 2len here0.01 km0%total11 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
- -28.27573, 17.15244
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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.