HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080015850
Bassin de Orange River (Oranje)
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 across 2 countries : Namakwa, Oranjemund
Sub-basin area
973,8km²
Upstream area
884 883,1km²
Discharge
309,8m³/s
Mean elev.
158m
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°
16,7°C
Annual rain
55mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,96
Runoff
9mm/an
PET
1 247mm
AET
51mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
1 087cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
20%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)