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
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
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)