HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081387360
Bassin de Zambezi
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 1 administrative regions : Chavuma
Sub-basin area
182,8km²
Upstream area
80 292,5km²
Discharge
638,73m³/s
Mean elev.
1 075m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Zambezi281 km²
- Bassin de Kashiji6 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 182.1 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
111 distinct species · 212 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 21 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Zambezi : 19 espèces reliées par 14 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
20,2°C
Annual rain
1 103mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
150mm/an
PET
1 956mm
AET
932mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
170cm
Forest
3%
Crops
3%
Urban
11%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)