HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081311310
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 1 administrative regions : Kalambo
Sub-basin area
323,4km²
Upstream area
2 645,8km²
Discharge
29,73m³/s
Mean elev.
1 621m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kalambo1455 km²
- Bassin de Kamyare867 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Kalambo
IUCN Not ReportedNature Forest Reserve
110.37 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
173 distinct species · 381 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 4 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 Bassin de Kalambo : 4 espèces reliées par 2 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 33.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
20,2°C
Annual rain
1 057mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
336mm/an
PET
1 594mm
AET
869mm
Mean slope
5,0°
Water table
359cm
Forest
96%
Crops
13%
Urban
1%
Protected
28%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)