HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081588060
Bassin · #1081588060
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 : Gemsbok, Hukunsti
Sub-basin area
986,9km²
Upstream area
986,9km²
Discharge
0,04m³/s
Mean elev.
1 098m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 596.5 km²60.6% of basin
- 388.2 km²39.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Gemsbok
IUCN IbNational Park
413.60 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
27 distinct species · 27 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°
20,2°C
Annual rain
278mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,85
Runoff
2mm/an
PET
1 850mm
AET
232mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
29cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
42%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)