HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080624290
Bassin de Waiau 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 : Southland
Sub-basin area
600,8km²
Upstream area
4 562,1km²
Discharge
314,46m³/s
Mean elev.
669m
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°
7,0°C
Annual rain
1 886mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,56
Runoff
2 218mm/an
PET
771mm
AET
751mm
Mean slope
21,8°
Water table
837cm
Forest
34%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
89%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)