HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081399000
Bassin de Lilongwe River
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 5 administrative regions : SC Chitekwele, SC Tsabango, TA Chimutu, TA Kalumbu, TA Mazengera
Sub-basin area
373,5km²
Upstream area
4 084,4km²
Discharge
17,18m³/s
Mean elev.
1 097m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Nathenje River631 km²
- Bassin de Lilongwe River263 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 147.6 km²39.7% of basin
- 121.0 km²32.5% of basin
- 86.5 km²23.3% of basin
- 16.9 km²4.5% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Thuma
IUCN VIForest Reserve
1.81 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
84 distinct species · 106 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 19 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 River : 17 espèces reliées par 13 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 7.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
19,6°C
Annual rain
878mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,42
Runoff
193mm/an
PET
1 528mm
AET
741mm
Mean slope
5,3°
Water table
302cm
Forest
0%
Crops
9%
Urban
21%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)