HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081400750
Bassin de Kafue
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 : Mpongwe, Ngabwe
Sub-basin area
66,9km²
Upstream area
24 928km²
Discharge
160,71m³/s
Mean elev.
1 143m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kafue258 km²
- Bassin de Kafue237 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 49.9 km²74.9% of basin
- 16.7 km²25.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Machiya Fungulwe
IUCN VIGame Management Area
15.95 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 16 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°
20,8°C
Annual rain
1 013mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
173mm/an
PET
1 708mm
AET
842mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
89cm
Forest
100%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)