Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081362570

Bassin de Zambezi

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 : Alto Zambeze

Pfafstetter: 12298601

Sub-basin area

949,9km²

Upstream area

3 922,9km²

Discharge

35,22m³/s

Mean elev.

1 189m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Zambezi123 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Alto Zambeze
    Moxico · Angola
    946.2 km²
    100.0% of basin

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

Species present

4 distinct species · 5 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

5 obs · 4 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 2
2–1
1–1
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°

20,5°C

Annual rain

1 354mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,26

Runoff

276mm/an

PET

1 835mm

AET

1 057mm

Mean slope

1,5°

Water table

195cm

Forest

99%

Crops

1%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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