HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080015200
Bassin de Lourens
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 3 administrative regions : Cape Winelands, City of Cape Town, Overberg
Sub-basin area
434,3km²
Upstream area
434,3km²
Discharge
4,37m³/s
Mean elev.
300m
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°
15,4°C
Annual rain
855mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
452mm/an
PET
1 121mm
AET
645mm
Mean slope
10,8°
Water table
536cm
Forest
39%
Crops
11%
Urban
17%
Protected
72%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)