HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081410080
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 : Mumbwa
Sub-basin area
764,2km²
Upstream area
764,2km²
Discharge
3,26m³/s
Mean elev.
1 230m
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°
20,5°C
Annual rain
970mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
140mm/an
PET
1 700mm
AET
816mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
148cm
Forest
97%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)