HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081403350
Bassin de Chilongwete
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 : Lake Malawi, Monkey Bay Urban, SC Goodson Ganya, TA Kachindamoto, TA Masasa +1
Sub-basin area
900,1km²
Upstream area
2 259,7km²
Discharge
11,08m³/s
Mean elev.
520m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bwanje862 km²
- Bassin de Kabudira498 km²
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 287.6 km²32.1% of basin
- 245.2 km²27.3% of basin
- 132.2 km²14.7% of basin
- 83.9 km²9.4% of basin
- 75.3 km²8.4% of basin
- 70.1 km²7.8% of basin
- 2.6 km²0.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bangwe
IUCN VIForest Reserve
14.61 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
179 distinct species · 297 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 23 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 Chilongwete : 19 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 20 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
24,1°C
Annual rain
901mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
186mm/an
PET
1 622mm
AET
749mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
74cm
Forest
13%
Crops
12%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)