HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081641540
Bassin de Umzimkulu 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 : Sisonke, Ugu
Sub-basin area
671,1km²
Upstream area
6 110,6km²
Discharge
61,42m³/s
Mean elev.
465m
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°
18,0°C
Annual rain
1 000mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,18
Runoff
365mm/an
PET
1 218mm
AET
848mm
Mean slope
12,2°
Water table
552cm
Forest
82%
Crops
17%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)