HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081400520
Bassin · #1081400520
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 : Lake Malawi
Sub-basin area
290,9km²
Upstream area
6 158,2km²
Discharge
36,71m³/s
Mean elev.
483m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lisangadzi659 km²
- Bassin · #10814011301 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 212.5 km²73.3% of basin
- 77.4 km²26.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Lake Malawi National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
13.12 km² overlap
Lake Malawi National Park
IUCN IINational Park
10.26 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
213 distinct species · 388 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 16 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 · #1081400520 : 16 espèces reliées par 12 interactions GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 10.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,8°C
Annual rain
1 002mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
220mm/an
PET
1 597mm
AET
796mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
49cm
Forest
6%
Crops
21%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)