HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081382500
Bassin de Nachiwali
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 10 administrative regions : Lake Malawi, Nkhotakota Boma, Nkhotakota Game Reserve, Ntchisi Boma, SC Chilooko +5
Sub-basin area
799,4km²
Upstream area
799,4km²
Discharge
5m³/s
Mean elev.
749m
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°
22,3°C
Annual rain
1 217mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
202mm/an
PET
1 525mm
AET
856mm
Mean slope
3,2°
Water table
163cm
Forest
62%
Crops
39%
Urban
5%
Protected
47%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)