Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081371050

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: 12298501

Sub-basin area

308,8km²

Upstream area

18 743,8km²

Discharge

180,35m³/s

Mean elev.

1 081m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Zambezi1126 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

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

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

Species present

1 distinct species · 1 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

1 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 1
1–0
1–0
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°

20,4°C

Annual rain

1 276mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,32

Runoff

313mm/an

PET

1 887mm

AET

1 048mm

Mean slope

0,2°

Water table

25cm

Forest

37%

Crops

4%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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