Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081410100

Bassin · #1081410100

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 : Chibombo

32% lakePfafstetter: 12266045

Sub-basin area

140,1km²

Upstream area

1 861,3km²

Discharge

8,25m³/s

Mean elev.

1 116m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

Drains into

Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

17 distinct species · 36 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

36 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 23
23–22
23–22
23–22
< 23

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

21,0°C

Annual rain

944mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,44

Runoff

118mm/an

PET

1 692mm

AET

796mm

Mean slope

0,0°

Water table

3cm

Forest

92%

Crops

17%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)