HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081406930
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
50,2km²
Upstream area
36 525,8km²
Discharge
230,76m³/s
Mean elev.
1 115m
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
974mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
200mm/an
PET
1 713mm
AET
819mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
6cm
Forest
60%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
15%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)