HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081343030
Bassin de Nkanka
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 : Chama, Chinsali, Isoka
Sub-basin area
847,6km²
Upstream area
847,8km²
Discharge
5,61m³/s
Mean elev.
1 042m
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°
22,3°C
Annual rain
989mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
205mm/an
PET
1 592mm
AET
800mm
Mean slope
4,8°
Water table
295cm
Forest
63%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
31%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)