HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081398880
Bassin · #1081398880
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 9 administrative regions across 2 countries : Lake Malawi, Lichinga, Salima Town, TA Karonga, TA Kuluunda +2
Sub-basin area
1 121,3km²
Upstream area
109 764,3km²
Discharge
591m³/s
Mean elev.
487m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mesinj1385 km²
- Bassin · #108139545055 km²
9 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 369.8 km²33.1% of basin
- 180.3 km²16.1% of basin
- 147.6 km²13.2% of basin
- 125.9 km²11.3% of basin
- 113.6 km²10.2% of basin
- 91.4 km²8.2% of basin
- 64.7 km²5.8% of basin
- 16.4 km²1.5% of basin
1 moreFull L2 list
- Salima Town7.3 km² · 0.7%
2 intersecting protected areas
North Senga
IUCN VIForest Reserve
12.07 km² overlap
South Senga
IUCN VIForest Reserve
3.53 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
719 distinct species · 3 371 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 23 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 · #1081398880 : 20 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 20 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.2%, 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°
24,5°C
Annual rain
1 130mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
231mm/an
PET
1 592mm
AET
841mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
25cm
Forest
5%
Crops
10%
Urban
6%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)