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
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°
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)