HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081609530
Bassin de Pongolo
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 : Umkhanyakude, Zululand
Sub-basin area
1 970,3km²
Upstream area
9 494,4km²
Discharge
44,09m³/s
Mean elev.
166m
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°
22,1°C
Annual rain
635mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,59
Runoff
109mm/an
PET
1 559mm
AET
537mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
302cm
Forest
80%
Crops
15%
Urban
3%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)