HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081627270
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
97,5km²
Upstream area
781 081,6km²
Discharge
442,04m³/s
Mean elev.
467m
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°
21,1°C
Annual rain
77mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,96
Runoff
16mm/an
PET
1 835mm
AET
62mm
Mean slope
13,5°
Water table
956cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)