HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080084300
Bassin de Rakaia 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 : Ashburton, Selwyn
Sub-basin area
725,5km²
Upstream area
2 954,6km²
Discharge
111,89m³/s
Mean elev.
498m
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°
9,4°C
Annual rain
1 101mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,14
Runoff
882mm/an
PET
832mm
AET
678mm
Mean slope
8,0°
Water table
298cm
Forest
2%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
17%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)