HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081343150
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 1 administrative regions : Chama
Sub-basin area
2,5km²
Upstream area
6 358,7km²
Discharge
52,28m³/s
Mean elev.
725m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Nkanka848 km²
- Bassin de Luangwa290 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Musalangu
IUCN VIGame Management Area
2.46 km² overlap
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°
23,9°C
Annual rain
944mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
211mm/an
PET
1 668mm
AET
796mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
1cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)