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
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°
24,1°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)