HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081394260
Bassin de Lingadzi
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 15 administrative regions : Dowa Boma, Lake Malawi, SC Mkukula, SC Mwanza, Salima Town +8
Sub-basin area
2 214,8km²
Upstream area
2 214,8km²
Discharge
13,16m³/s
Mean elev.
753m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
15 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 449.7 km²20.4% of basin
- 416.0 km²18.9% of basin
- 356.1 km²16.1% of basin
- 301.5 km²13.7% of basin
- 216.0 km²9.8% of basin
- 131.3 km²5.9% of basin
- 99.4 km²4.5% of basin
- 89.9 km²4.1% of basin
7 moreFull L2 list
- TA Kuluunda67.0 km² · 3.0%
- Lake Malawi31.0 km² · 1.4%
- SC Mkukula22.2 km² · 1.0%
- Lake Malawi19.7 km² · 0.9%
- Dowa Boma5.6 km² · 0.3%
- Salima Town0.9 km² · 0.0%
- TA Kalumo0.2 km² · 0.0%
2 intersecting protected areas
Kongwe
IUCN VIForest Reserve
19.49 km² overlap
Dowa Hills
IUCN VIForest Reserve
10.82 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
830 distinct species · 3 238 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Lingadzi : 24 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 23 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 6.1%, 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°
22,4°C
Annual rain
973mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
188mm/an
PET
1 566mm
AET
782mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
124cm
Forest
5%
Crops
16%
Urban
7%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)