HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081356220
Bassin · #1081356220
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 across 2 countries : Lake Malawi, Mbinga, Nyasa
Sub-basin area
878,1km²
Upstream area
878,1km²
Discharge
8,02m³/s
Mean elev.
774m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Lake Malawi489.1 km²55.9% of basin
- 204.5 km²23.4% of basin
- 181.0 km²20.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Liwili/Kiteza/Lwekea
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
2.61 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
20 distinct species · 25 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°
22,6°C
Annual rain
1 366mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
299mm/an
PET
1 528mm
AET
970mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
105cm
Forest
29%
Crops
13%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)