HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080014070
Bassin de Buffalo 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, Buffalo City
Sub-basin area
1 283,9km²
Upstream area
1 283,9km²
Discharge
7,33m³/s
Mean elev.
473m
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°
17,5°C
Annual rain
685mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
176mm/an
PET
1 260mm
AET
582mm
Mean slope
5,3°
Water table
386cm
Forest
62%
Crops
13%
Urban
19%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)