HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081627170
Bassin de Orange 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 across 2 countries : Karas, Namakwa
Sub-basin area
2 235,5km²
Upstream area
768 191,1km²
Discharge
437,27m³/s
Mean elev.
702m
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°
20,7°C
Annual rain
101mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,94
Runoff
5mm/an
PET
1 850mm
AET
83mm
Mean slope
5,4°
Water table
1 125cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)