HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081400870
Bassin de Nathenje River
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 7 administrative regions : Lilongwe City, SC Tsabango, TA Chadza, TA Chiseka, TA Kalumba +2
Sub-basin area
631,4km²
Upstream area
631,6km²
Discharge
3,19m³/s
Mean elev.
1 126m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 302.7 km²48.1% of basin
- 106.7 km²17.0% of basin
- 76.0 km²12.1% of basin
- 64.1 km²10.2% of basin
- 41.8 km²6.6% of basin
- 32.0 km²5.1% of basin
- 5.9 km²0.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bunda
IUCN VIForest Reserve
3.12 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
358 distinct species · 815 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 de Nathenje River : 34 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 34 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 4.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
19,5°C
Annual rain
888mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
196mm/an
PET
1 553mm
AET
749mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
173cm
Forest
1%
Crops
26%
Urban
46%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)