HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081632150
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 1 administrative regions : Pixley ka Seme
Sub-basin area
17,1km²
Upstream area
288 329,7km²
Discharge
286,7m³/s
Mean elev.
983m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Orange River850 km²
- Bassin de Orange River240 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 17.1 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
De Zilverstroom Protected Environment
IUCN Not ReportedProtected Environment
0.36 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
18,9°C
Annual rain
262mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,84
Runoff
17mm/an
PET
1 685mm
AET
220mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
315cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)