HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081638150
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 : Pixley ka Seme, Xhariep
Sub-basin area
148,6km²
Upstream area
84 641,2km²
Discharge
168,83m³/s
Mean elev.
1 290m
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°
15,8°C
Annual rain
365mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,76
Runoff
6mm/an
PET
1 541mm
AET
310mm
Mean slope
5,3°
Water table
760cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
17%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)