HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081361340
Bassin · #1081361340
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 : Lake Malawi
Sub-basin area
517,1km²
Upstream area
58 416,8km²
Discharge
345,43m³/s
Mean elev.
476m
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°
24,1°C
Annual rain
1 458mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
289mm/an
PET
1 552mm
AET
1 028mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
0cm
Forest
0%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)