HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081330850
Bassin de Chambeshi
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 : Mungwi
Sub-basin area
40km²
Upstream area
3 545,1km²
Discharge
35,88m³/s
Mean elev.
1 263m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Chamfubu1180 km²
- Bassin de Chambeshi984 km²
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
20,8°C
Annual rain
1 145mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,30
Runoff
296mm/an
PET
1 630mm
AET
878mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
102cm
Forest
26%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)