HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080621140
Bassin de Esk 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 : Hurunui, Selwyn, Waimakariri
Sub-basin area
394,8km²
Upstream area
394,8km²
Discharge
15,58m³/s
Mean elev.
1 087m
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°
6,7°C
Annual rain
2 068mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,63
Runoff
1 312mm/an
PET
750mm
AET
747mm
Mean slope
19,4°
Water table
612cm
Forest
7%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
23%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)