HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081388130
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 2 administrative regions : Chavuma, Zambezi
Sub-basin area
125,1km²
Upstream area
80 611,5km²
Discharge
640,14m³/s
Mean elev.
1 062m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kalombo194 km²
- Bassin de Zambezi183 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 107.6 km²86.3% of basin
- 17.0 km²13.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Chavuma
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
20.96 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
20,8°C
Annual rain
1 094mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
140mm/an
PET
1 992mm
AET
924mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
73cm
Forest
17%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
17%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)