HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081397400
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 1 administrative regions : Zambezi
Sub-basin area
42,9km²
Upstream area
92 111,9km²
Discharge
723,55m³/s
Mean elev.
1 057m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Zambezi516 km²
- Bassin de Luatembu482 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 42.7 km²100.0% of basin
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°
22,8°C
Annual rain
1 039mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
127mm/an
PET
2 105mm
AET
877mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
81cm
Forest
68%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)