HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081587950
Bassin de Steelpoortrivier
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 3 administrative regions : Ehlanzeni, Nkangala, Sekhukhune
Sub-basin area
1 717,1km²
Upstream area
2 483,7km²
Discharge
3,18m³/s
Mean elev.
1 543m
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°
15,7°C
Annual rain
770mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
47mm/an
PET
1 462mm
AET
649mm
Mean slope
6,0°
Water table
538cm
Forest
9%
Crops
21%
Urban
1%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)