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
Sample of 25 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Elephant Marsh : 19 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 29 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
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.