Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081619820

Bassin de Fish 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 3 administrative regions : Berseba, Karas, Oranjemund

Pfafstetter: 12720301

Sub-basin area

224,2km²

Upstream area

64 446,4km²

Discharge

15,72m³/s

Mean elev.

481m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

Drains into

Receives from 2 basins

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

18 distinct species · 23 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

23 obs · 5 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 8
8–7
7–7
4–6
< 4

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

19,1°C

Annual rain

65mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,96

Runoff

12mm/an

PET

1 586mm

AET

54mm

Mean slope

15,1°

Water table

1 004cm

Forest

0%

Crops

0%

Urban

0%

Protected

98%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)