HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081520920
Bassin · #1081520920
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 : Ngamiland West
Sub-basin area
197,8km²
Upstream area
7 013,3km²
Discharge
4,38m³/s
Mean elev.
938m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Grootlaagte1123 km²
- Bassin · #1081521380384 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 197.3 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Okavango Delta System
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
197.26 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
22 distinct species · 38 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°
22,4°C
Annual rain
418mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,78
Runoff
24mm/an
PET
1 888mm
AET
351mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
19cm
Forest
0%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)