HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080042150
Bassin de Koichab
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 1 administrative regions : Luderitz
Sub-basin area
365,8km²
Upstream area
7 259,7km²
Discharge
1,86m³/s
Mean elev.
508m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10816033402244 km²
- Bassin de Koichab12 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Namib-Naukluft
IUCN IINational Park
365.13 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
12 distinct species · 30 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
15,7°C
Annual rain
36mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,97
Runoff
11mm/an
PET
1 170mm
AET
37mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
1 133cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)