HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081405330
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
74,7km²
Upstream area
35 046km²
Discharge
224,3m³/s
Mean elev.
1 118m
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°
21,0°C
Annual rain
984mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
197mm/an
PET
1 713mm
AET
825mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
8cm
Forest
32%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
30%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)