Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081367350

Bassin de Chibishi

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 2 administrative regions : Chembe, Milengi

Pfafstetter: 13297382

Sub-basin area

793,2km²

Upstream area

793,2km²

Discharge

5,98m³/s

Mean elev.

1 250m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Lwela446 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Shamendi

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    314.73 km² overlap

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

Species present

2 distinct species · 8 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

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

20,1°C

Annual rain

1 234mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,27

Runoff

238mm/an

PET

1 690mm

AET

910mm

Mean slope

1,6°

Water table

157cm

Forest

93%

Crops

11%

Urban

0%

Protected

40%

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