HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081594000
Bassin de Umgwenya
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 : Ehlanzeni, Nkangala
Sub-basin area
1 526,5km²
Upstream area
1 526,5km²
Discharge
6,51m³/s
Mean elev.
1 557m
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°
15,6°C
Annual rain
864mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
116mm/an
PET
1 407mm
AET
741mm
Mean slope
8,9°
Water table
552cm
Forest
64%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)