Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081397030

Bassin de Msipazi

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 : Chipata

Pfafstetter: 12244080

Sub-basin area

320,2km²

Upstream area

320,2km²

Discharge

1,2m³/s

Mean elev.

1 098m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Lutembwe1253 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Msipazi

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    2.27 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

6 distinct species · 11 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

11 obs · 6 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 4
4–3
3–3
1–2
< 1

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

21,9°C

Annual rain

1 037mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,39

Runoff

167mm/an

PET

1 687mm

AET

854mm

Mean slope

2,4°

Water table

191cm

Forest

9%

Crops

4%

Urban

2%

Protected

1%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)