HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081633670
Bassin de Riet 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 : Xhariep
Sub-basin area
6,9km²
Upstream area
2 378,1km²
Discharge
1,31m³/s
Mean elev.
1 339m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Riet River668 km²
- Bassin de Riet River185 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 6.9 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Wuras Dam Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve
0.17 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
15 distinct species · 20 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°
15,9°C
Annual rain
461mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,70
Runoff
23mm/an
PET
1 534mm
AET
390mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
59cm
Forest
0%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)