HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081404330
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 1 administrative regions : Ngabwe
Sub-basin area
442,6km²
Upstream area
34 807km²
Discharge
224,73m³/s
Mean elev.
1 142m
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 002mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
192mm/an
PET
1 709mm
AET
836mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
61cm
Forest
90%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
68%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)