HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081387480
Bassin de Lifuliza
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 11 administrative regions across 2 countries : Lago, Lake Malawi, Nkhotakota Game Reserve, SC Mwansambo, SC Nthondo +6
Sub-basin area
1 390,1km²
Upstream area
1 390,3km²
Discharge
8,81m³/s
Mean elev.
671m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
11 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Lake Malawi329.8 km²23.8% of basin
- 219.6 km²15.9% of basin
- 186.6 km²13.5% of basin
- 152.0 km²11.0% of basin
- 144.1 km²10.4% of basin
- 125.1 km²9.0% of basin
- 119.2 km²8.6% of basin
- 62.7 km²4.5% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve
IUCN IVWildlife Reserve
186.31 km² overlap
Ntchisi
IUCN VIForest Reserve
87.63 km² overlap
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
2.26 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 090 distinct species · 4 482 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Lifuliza : 28 espèces reliées par 24 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 5.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
22,8°C
Annual rain
1 139mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,26
Runoff
200mm/an
PET
1 545mm
AET
836mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
122cm
Forest
26%
Crops
16%
Urban
4%
Protected
21%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)