Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081412570

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: 12265001

Sub-basin area

398,3km²

Upstream area

55 329,1km²

Discharge

299,08m³/s

Mean elev.

1 142m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Kafue2093 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Kafue

    IUCN II

    National Park

    280.63 km² overlap

  • Lunga Luswishi

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    115.62 km² overlap

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

Species present

242 distinct species · 1 718 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

1 718 obs · 6 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 1 140
1 140–1 139
354–1 139
173–353
< 173

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

Ecological tissue

Sample of 10 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.

ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie
RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation
StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Kafue : 8 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 9 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 20.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées
10
Interactions affichées
9
Connectance
0.200
Patrimoniales
1
Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

20,7°C

Annual rain

967mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,44

Runoff

142mm/an

PET

1 735mm

AET

816mm

Mean slope

1,1°

Water table

153cm

Forest

68%

Crops

12%

Urban

0%

Protected

97%

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