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
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Munwinu Channel499 km²
- Bassin de Kafue29 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Lunga Luswishi
IUCN VIGame Management Area
12.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
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)