Mountain Catchment Area · zaf
Riviersonderend Mountain Catchment Area
- Area
- 453 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Reported
- Year
- 1981
Overview
- Designation
- Mountain Catchment Area
- Established
- 1981
- Managing authority
- Private Owners
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 911 distinct species · 22 560 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Riviersonderend Mountain Catchment Area : 30 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 36 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 5.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology3 basins · 0 lakes · 12 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
28,2km
Basins crossed
3
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
7 381km²
Discharge in basins
7,9m³/s
Mean precip.
533mm/an
Mean T°
15,8°C
Moisture idx
-0,58
Mean runoff
142mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
452m
Watersheds crossing here
Rivers / streams (12, ord ≥ 4)
- Sonderend Riverord 5len here5.70 km3%total164 km
- Boesmansrivierord 1len here3.73 km21%total17 km
- Koringlandsklooford 1len here3.71 km37%total10 km
- Waterklooford 1len here3.25 km13%total26 km
- Spreeudrifspruitord 2len here2.77 km28%total10 km
- Gobos Riverord 3len here2.59 km14%total18 km
- Risjesvleispruitord 1len here1.99 km28%total7 km
- Die Poortord 1len here1.65 km37%total4 km
- Meulklooford 1len here1.31 km15%total9 km
- Elandsklooford 1len here0.85 km19%total5 km
- Eksteenklooford 3len here0.53 km7%total8 km
- Buffelsklooford 1len here0.09 km5%total2 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
- -34.03728, 19.87047
- Open in maps
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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.