HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081621650
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
247km²
Upstream area
6 952,8km²
Discharge
16,01m³/s
Mean elev.
1 209m
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°
17,2°C
Annual rain
786mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
100mm/an
PET
1 474mm
AET
664mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
399cm
Forest
17%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)