HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080013820
Bassin de Mbashe River
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 2 administrative regions : Amathole, O.R.Tambo
Sub-basin area
858,1km²
Upstream area
6 098,6km²
Discharge
37,48m³/s
Mean elev.
497m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
17,7°C
Annual rain
838mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
282mm/an
PET
1 241mm
AET
711mm
Mean slope
10,0°
Water table
553cm
Forest
60%
Crops
10%
Urban
1%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)