HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081400390
Bassin de Dongwe
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 1 administrative regions : Mufumbwe
Sub-basin area
3km²
Upstream area
8 160,8km²
Discharge
74,82m³/s
Mean elev.
1 101m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Dongwe4142 km²
- Bassin de North Musondweji979 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 3.0 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Chizera
IUCN VIGame Management Area
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 25 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,2°C
Annual rain
1 020mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
154mm/an
PET
1 807mm
AET
860mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
42cm
Forest
100%
Crops
25%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)