HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081357760
Bassin · #1081357760
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 : Chifunabuli, Mansa, Samfya
Sub-basin area
359,2km²
Upstream area
3 474,8km²
Discharge
44,03m³/s
Mean elev.
1 176m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Chimana228 km²
- Bassin · #108135682056 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 207.2 km²57.9% of basin
- 150.5 km²42.1% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Samfya
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
2.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 19 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°
20,9°C
Annual rain
1 449mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
389mm/an
PET
1 613mm
AET
945mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
51cm
Forest
45%
Crops
13%
Urban
1%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)