Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site) · mwi
Elephant Marsh
- Area
- 609 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Reported
- Year
- 2017
Overview
- Designation
- Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
- Established
- 2017
- Managing authority
- Full information available from the Ramsar Sites Information Service (RSIS) website - https://rsis.ramsar.org/ris/2308
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
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Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
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Hydrology13 basins · 12 lakes · 17 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
143,4km
Lake surface here
7,09km²
Basins crossed
13
Max stream order
6
Max drainage
154 273km²
Discharge in basins
2 095,4m³/s
Mean precip.
915mm/an
Mean T°
25,1°C
Moisture idx
-0,48
Mean runoff
201mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
221m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Chinzemebe Riversub-area615,4 km²overlap195.50 km²32%
- Bassin de Ntayakhasu Streamsub-area637,8 km²overlap170.73 km²28%
- Bassin de Shiresub-area299,9 km²overlap95.48 km²16%
- Bassin de Shiresub-area162,1 km²overlap45.56 km²7%
- Bassin de Shiresub-area1 961 km²overlap31.93 km²5%
- Bassin de Lalanjesub-area189,3 km²overlap27.03 km²4%
- Bassin de Shiresub-area22,2 km²overlap17.41 km²3%
- Bassin de Shiresub-area8,6 km²overlap8.54 km²1%
- Bassin de Ruosub-area637,9 km²overlap6.83 km²1%
Lakes (12, top by area)
- Lake #82374area2,1 km²avg depth0.7 m
- Tomaninjobi Poolarea1,2 km²avg depth0.7 m
- Lake #82383area1,1 km²avg depth0.6 m
- Lac 1413541area0,7 km²avg depth2.7 m
- Lac 1413819area0,5 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lac 1413874area0,3 km²avg depth1.1 m
- Lac 1413844area0,3 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lac 1413847area0,3 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lac 1413885area0,2 km²avg depth1.1 m
Rivers / streams (17, ord ≥ 4)
- Shireord 6len here76.77 km8%total1016 km
- Ntayakhasu Streamord 2len here10.55 km28%total38 km
- Chinzemebe Riverord 2len here8.29 km34%total24 km
- riverord 3len here5.64 km100%total6 km
- Chindema Riverord 1len here5.10 km99%total5 km
- Livunku Riverord 2len here4.87 km20%total24 km
- Lalanjeord 2len here4.42 km11%total40 km
- Lukhubulaord 6len here4.32 km8%total57 km
- Msanjere Riverord 1len here4.27 km38%total11 km
- Thangazi Riverord 3len here4.25 km19%total22 km
- Mwamphanziord 6len here4.21 km9%total44 km
- Nkhate Riverord 1len here2.96 km20%total15 km
5 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- -16.29620, 34.96378
- Open in maps
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.