HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081398950
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 8 administrative regions : Lake Malawi, SC Kambwiri, Salima Town, TA Karonga, TA Maganga +1
Sub-basin area
356,9km²
Upstream area
8 468,2km²
Discharge
45,78m³/s
Mean elev.
481m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Linthipe3042 km²
- Bassin de Lilongwe367 km²
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 158.4 km²44.5% of basin
- 79.8 km²22.4% of basin
- 53.8 km²15.1% of basin
- 19.9 km²5.6% of basin
- 17.9 km²5.0% of basin
- 16.4 km²4.6% of basin
- 8.5 km²2.4% of basin
- 1.0 km²0.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
South Senga
IUCN VIForest Reserve
1.79 km² overlap
Lake Malawi National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
0.96 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
296 distinct species · 706 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 de Lilongwe : 26 espèces reliées par 32 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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 077mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
218mm/an
PET
1 603mm
AET
829mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
6cm
Forest
1%
Crops
2%
Urban
16%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)