HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080083240
Bassin de Whataroa 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 : Ashburton, Mackenzie, Westland
Sub-basin area
596,9km²
Upstream area
596,9km²
Discharge
63,82m³/s
Mean elev.
969m
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°
7,5°C
Annual rain
3 463mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,77
Runoff
2 938mm/an
PET
796mm
AET
796mm
Mean slope
23,6°
Water table
676cm
Forest
32%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
87%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)