HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081343020
Bassin de Chiloba
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 3 administrative regions : Chinsali, Mungwi, Shiwamg'andu
Sub-basin area
1 263,6km²
Upstream area
1 263,6km²
Discharge
9,75m³/s
Mean elev.
1 249m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1103.8 km²87.7% of basin
- 154.2 km²12.2% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Chinsali Plantation
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
2.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
33 distinct species · 91 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 135mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,30
Runoff
249mm/an
PET
1 630mm
AET
841mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
105cm
Forest
42%
Crops
5%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)