HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081307040
Bassin de Kalambo
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 4 administrative regions : Kalambo, Nkasi, Sumbawanga Rural, Sumbawanga Urban
Sub-basin area
1 455,3km²
Upstream area
1 455,7km²
Discharge
15,4m³/s
Mean elev.
1 754m
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°
20,3°C
Annual rain
982mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
336mm/an
PET
1 611mm
AET
829mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
237cm
Forest
52%
Crops
13%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)