HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081410830
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
Sub-basin area
226,6km²
Upstream area
53 935,1km²
Discharge
293,83m³/s
Mean elev.
1 152m
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°
20,7°C
Annual rain
974mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
157mm/an
PET
1 729mm
AET
821mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
151cm
Forest
96%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
54%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)