HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081382430
Bassin de Bua
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 14 administrative regions : Lake Malawi, Nkhotakota Game Reserve, Ntchisi Boma, SC Chakhaza, SC Chilooko +9
Sub-basin area
2 724,6km²
Upstream area
10 694,5km²
Discharge
41,82m³/s
Mean elev.
1 035m
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°
20,7°C
Annual rain
1 010mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
174mm/an
PET
1 510mm
AET
789mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
195cm
Forest
25%
Crops
13%
Urban
2%
Protected
25%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)