HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081378400
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 3 administrative regions : Lake Malawi, SC Khosolo Gwaza Jere, TA Kanyenda
Sub-basin area
722,1km²
Upstream area
8 285,5km²
Discharge
33,28m³/s
Mean elev.
480m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,1°C
Annual rain
1 487mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,04
Runoff
252mm/an
PET
1 546mm
AET
943mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
7cm
Forest
16%
Crops
1%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)