HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081625650
Bassin de Orange River (Oranje)
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 across 2 countries : Karas, Namakwa
Sub-basin area
104,8km²
Upstream area
787 136,9km²
Discharge
317,51m³/s
Mean elev.
346m
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°
19,1°C
Annual rain
68mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,96
Runoff
15mm/an
PET
1 599mm
AET
56mm
Mean slope
6,3°
Water table
860cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)