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
Sub-basin area
398,3km²
Upstream area
55 329,1km²
Discharge
299,08m³/s
Mean elev.
1 142m
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
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)