HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081411060
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
317km²
Upstream area
317km²
Discharge
1,4m³/s
Mean elev.
1 178m
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
968mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
141mm/an
PET
1 720mm
AET
816mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
129cm
Forest
85%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)