HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081386240
Bassin de Mpingozi
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 2 administrative regions across 2 countries : Kasungu National Park, Lumezi
Sub-basin area
230,5km²
Upstream area
230,5km²
Discharge
0,94m³/s
Mean elev.
1 091m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 229.6 km²100.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kasungu National Park
IUCN IINational Park
8.54 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 17 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°
21,2°C
Annual rain
854mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,48
Runoff
128mm/an
PET
1 634mm
AET
721mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
142cm
Forest
29%
Crops
26%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)