HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080082510
Bassin de Waiau 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 1 administrative regions : Southland
Sub-basin area
2 405,7km²
Upstream area
8 200,5km²
Discharge
415,31m³/s
Mean elev.
417m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
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Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
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Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
8,1°C
Annual rain
1 329mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,37
Runoff
1 287mm/an
PET
796mm
AET
731mm
Mean slope
11,4°
Water table
404cm
Forest
26%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
46%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)