HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081619950
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 1 administrative regions : Umzinyathi
Sub-basin area
88,9km²
Upstream area
5 989,5km²
Discharge
14,43m³/s
Mean elev.
1 207m
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
787mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
97mm/an
PET
1 497mm
AET
665mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
381cm
Forest
8%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)