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
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
- Bassin de Fish River617 km²
- Bassin de Kameelboom199 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 125.7 km²56.2% of basin
- 76.7 km²34.2% of basin
- 21.5 km²9.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ai-Ais Hot Springs
IUCN IINational Park
218.45 km² overlap
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.
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)