HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081398200
Bassin de Lilongwe
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 4 administrative regions : SC Chitekwele, SC Mkukula, TA Chiwere, TA Karonga
Sub-basin area
366,5km²
Upstream area
5 069,3km²
Discharge
22,44m³/s
Mean elev.
841m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,5°C
Annual rain
915mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
188mm/an
PET
1 562mm
AET
762mm
Mean slope
5,8°
Water table
284cm
Forest
13%
Crops
7%
Urban
6%
Protected
18%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)