HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081394160
Bassin de Nkula
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 9 administrative regions across 2 countries : Lake Malawi, Lichinga, SC Mwansambo, TA Chikho, TA Kasakula +1
Sub-basin area
1 709,4km²
Upstream area
104 988,7km²
Discharge
555,66m³/s
Mean elev.
543m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Luaíce2263 km²
- Bassin · #1081390650200 km²
9 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Lake Malawi447.8 km²26.3% of basin
- 410.2 km²24.1% of basin
- 316.0 km²18.6% of basin
- 223.7 km²13.1% of basin
- 129.5 km²7.6% of basin
- 97.8 km²5.7% of basin
- 56.8 km²3.3% of basin
- 18.4 km²1.1% of basin
1 moreFull L2 list
- Lake Malawi2.8 km² · 0.2%
1 intersecting protected areas
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
364.44 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
321 distinct species · 745 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 23 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 Nkula : 19 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 22 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 8.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
23,8°C
Annual rain
1 115mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
212mm/an
PET
1 574mm
AET
829mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
45cm
Forest
2%
Crops
18%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)