HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081593520
Bassin de Olifants
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 : Nkangala, Sekhukhune
Sub-basin area
398,4km²
Upstream area
11 879,4km²
Discharge
7,59m³/s
Mean elev.
1 288m
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°
17,8°C
Annual rain
670mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,59
Runoff
22mm/an
PET
1 623mm
AET
566mm
Mean slope
8,3°
Water table
751cm
Forest
5%
Crops
26%
Urban
0%
Protected
49%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)