HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081546800
Bassin de Swakop River
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 : Okahandja, Omatako
Sub-basin area
269km²
Upstream area
3 891,3km²
Discharge
2,22m³/s
Mean elev.
1 371m
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°
20,1°C
Annual rain
368mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,80
Runoff
20mm/an
PET
1 878mm
AET
309mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
403cm
Forest
0%
Crops
3%
Urban
2%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)