HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081366940
Bassin · #1081366940
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 3 countries : Lago, Lake Malawi, Nyasa
Sub-basin area
1 496,6km²
Upstream area
1 496,6km²
Discharge
20,16m³/s
Mean elev.
645m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1356.3 km²91.0% of basin
- 78.2 km²5.2% of basin
- Lake Malawi56.2 km²3.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
1309.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
12 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°
23,8°C
Annual rain
1 357mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
461mm/an
PET
1 507mm
AET
930mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
118cm
Forest
21%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)