HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081640260
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 : Joe Gqabi, Xhariep
Sub-basin area
147,5km²
Upstream area
42 220,7km²
Discharge
145,84m³/s
Mean elev.
1 361m
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°
15,4°C
Annual rain
480mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,68
Runoff
16mm/an
PET
1 525mm
AET
407mm
Mean slope
4,7°
Water table
618cm
Forest
0%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
11%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)