Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081346810

Bassin de Musi

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 2 administrative regions : Chama, Chinsali

Pfafstetter: 12249920

Sub-basin area

841,4km²

Upstream area

841,7km²

Discharge

5,24m³/s

Mean elev.

1 122m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Luangwa440 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Musalangu

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    834.06 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

2 distinct species · 4 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

4 obs · 4 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 1
1–0
1–0
1–0
< 1

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

21,7°C

Annual rain

982mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,39

Runoff

196mm/an

PET

1 606mm

AET

791mm

Mean slope

3,6°

Water table

288cm

Forest

70%

Crops

11%

Urban

0%

Protected

90%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)