HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080083870
Bassin de Wairau 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 : Marlborough
Sub-basin area
423,5km²
Upstream area
3 618,1km²
Discharge
96,82m³/s
Mean elev.
224m
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°
11,9°C
Annual rain
1 142mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,17
Runoff
807mm/an
PET
913mm
AET
752mm
Mean slope
13,6°
Water table
500cm
Forest
59%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
21%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)