HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081640620
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 3 administrative regions : Joe Gqabi, Pixley ka Seme, Xhariep
Sub-basin area
1 255,7km²
Upstream area
71 228,5km²
Discharge
166,32m³/s
Mean elev.
1 355m
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°
16,0°C
Annual rain
422mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,72
Runoff
12mm/an
PET
1 501mm
AET
358mm
Mean slope
3,2°
Water table
485cm
Forest
0%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
18%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)