HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081608140
Bassin de Lower Usuthu
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 13 administrative regions : Dvokodvweni, Hlane, Kubuta, Mafutseni, Mkhiweni +8
Sub-basin area
2 186,9km²
Upstream area
14 655,4km²
Discharge
86,31m³/s
Mean elev.
401m
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°
21,2°C
Annual rain
710mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
153mm/an
PET
1 538mm
AET
600mm
Mean slope
4,7°
Water table
440cm
Forest
99%
Crops
9%
Urban
1%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)