HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081377750
Bassin de Dwangwa
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 6 administrative regions : Nkhotakota Game Reserve, SC Khosolo Gwaza Jere, SC Simlemba, TA Kanyenda, TA Kapelula +1
Sub-basin area
865,5km²
Upstream area
6 656,8km²
Discharge
23,73m³/s
Mean elev.
962m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Dwangwa1194 km²
- Bassin de Dwangwa1094 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 469.9 km²54.5% of basin
- 259.0 km²30.0% of basin
- 82.1 km²9.5% of basin
- 35.5 km²4.1% of basin
- 15.6 km²1.8% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve
IUCN IVWildlife Reserve
467.66 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
14 distinct species · 37 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°
21,1°C
Annual rain
1 150mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
194mm/an
PET
1 513mm
AET
856mm
Mean slope
7,5°
Water table
339cm
Forest
64%
Crops
15%
Urban
0%
Protected
54%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)