HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081560380
Bassin de Sand 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 1 administrative regions : Vhembe
Sub-basin area
78,6km²
Upstream area
6 779,3km²
Discharge
8m³/s
Mean elev.
989m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
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Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
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Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
19,0°C
Annual rain
579mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,62
Runoff
47mm/an
PET
1 559mm
AET
493mm
Mean slope
8,0°
Water table
613cm
Forest
66%
Crops
10%
Urban
9%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)