Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081410700

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 2 administrative regions : Kasempa, Mumbwa

Pfafstetter: 12265002

Sub-basin area

995,5km²

Upstream area

995,5km²

Discharge

5,95m³/s

Mean elev.

1 213m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Kafue398 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

3 intersecting protected areas

  • Lunga Luswishi

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    991.75 km² overlap

  • East Lunga

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    552.56 km² overlap

  • Kafue

    IUCN II

    National Park

    0.11 km² overlap

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

Species present

3 distinct species · 11 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

11 obs · 6 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 4
4–3
3–3
1–2
< 1

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°

20,4°C

Annual rain

1 010mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,41

Runoff

191mm/an

PET

1 710mm

AET

843mm

Mean slope

0,9°

Water table

123cm

Forest

99%

Crops

8%

Urban

0%

Protected

97%

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