HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081649590
Bassin de Mbashe 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 : Amathole, Chris Hani, O.R.Tambo
Sub-basin area
347,7km²
Upstream area
5 011,8km²
Discharge
27,01m³/s
Mean elev.
707m
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°
17,2°C
Annual rain
707mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
228mm/an
PET
1 333mm
AET
599mm
Mean slope
6,6°
Water table
523cm
Forest
27%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)