HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080618200
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 2 administrative regions : Marlborough, Tasman
Sub-basin area
855,4km²
Upstream area
2 400,6km²
Discharge
62,37m³/s
Mean elev.
499m
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°
10,3°C
Annual rain
1 220mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,29
Runoff
787mm/an
PET
851mm
AET
751mm
Mean slope
15,5°
Water table
535cm
Forest
43%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
27%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)