HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081398710
Bassin de Kafue
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 2 administrative regions : Mpongwe, Ngabwe
Sub-basin area
359,3km²
Upstream area
24 118,8km²
Discharge
160,09m³/s
Mean elev.
1 152m
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°
20,7°C
Annual rain
1 049mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
177mm/an
PET
1 711mm
AET
860mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
82cm
Forest
87%
Crops
15%
Urban
0%
Protected
21%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)