Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081479870

Bassin de Hoarusib

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 : Epupa, Opuwo

Pfafstetter: 12809891

Sub-basin area

60,8km²

Upstream area

2 946,5km²

Discharge

1,93m³/s

Mean elev.

968m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Hoarusib747 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Ongongo

    IUCN Not Reported

    Communal Conservancy

    3.37 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

0 distinct species · 0 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

0 obs · 0 cellules

Aucune observation géoréférencée précise (<10 km) dans ce territoire.

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.2° × 0.2° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

21,2°C

Annual rain

234mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,85

Runoff

23mm/an

PET

1 535mm

AET

198mm

Mean slope

6,2°

Water table

470cm

Forest

0%

Crops

4%

Urban

0%

Protected

6%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)