HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081619220
Bassin de Buffalo River
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 : Amajuba, Umzinyathi
Sub-basin area
413,8km²
Upstream area
5 706,1km²
Discharge
13,82m³/s
Mean elev.
1 217m
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°
17,3°C
Annual rain
792mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,48
Runoff
91mm/an
PET
1 511mm
AET
669mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
279cm
Forest
7%
Crops
13%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)