HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081571760
Bassin de Kam
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 : Rehoboth Rural, Windhoek Rural
Sub-basin area
103,2km²
Upstream area
549,3km²
Discharge
0,08m³/s
Mean elev.
1 697m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kam229 km²
- Bassin de Kabib217 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 101.8 km²98.8% of basin
- 1.2 km²1.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 6 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°
15,9°C
Annual rain
233mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,85
Runoff
6mm/an
PET
1 584mm
AET
196mm
Mean slope
4,5°
Water table
597cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)