HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081599670
Bassin · #1081599670
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 : Keetmanshoop Rural, Mariental Rural
Sub-basin area
352,4km²
Upstream area
352,5km²
Discharge
0,01m³/s
Mean elev.
1 006m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 309.7 km²88.1% of basin
- 42.0 km²11.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 29 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°
19,9°C
Annual rain
199mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,89
Runoff
0mm/an
PET
1 865mm
AET
166mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
192cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)