HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080085290
Bassin de Whanganui 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 4 administrative regions : Ruapehu, South Taranaki, Stratford, Whanganui
Sub-basin area
1 286,2km²
Upstream area
7 114,5km²
Discharge
246,7m³/s
Mean elev.
268m
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°
12,4°C
Annual rain
1 249mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,24
Runoff
816mm/an
PET
905mm
AET
794mm
Mean slope
12,7°
Water table
376cm
Forest
37%
Crops
0%
Urban
3%
Protected
21%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)