HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081579570
Bassin de Olifants 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 : Capricorn, Sekhukhune
Sub-basin area
54,1km²
Upstream area
30 454,4km²
Discharge
15,68m³/s
Mean elev.
840m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Olifants River270 km²
- Bassin de Olifants River20 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 33.3 km²61.7% of basin
- 20.7 km²38.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
18 distinct species · 24 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°
19,8°C
Annual rain
673mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,59
Runoff
24mm/an
PET
1 634mm
AET
558mm
Mean slope
8,5°
Water table
658cm
Forest
0%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)