HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081413580
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
2 093,3km²
Upstream area
82 089km²
Discharge
472,02m³/s
Mean elev.
1 168m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lunga1346 km²
- Bassin de Kafue398 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1862.7 km²89.3% of basin
- 223.0 km²10.7% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Kafue
IUCN IINational Park
1831.56 km² overlap
Mumbwa
IUCN VIGame Management Area
40.43 km² overlap
Forest Reserve Name Unknown (ZMB) No.76
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
9.57 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
508 distinct species · 8 113 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 13 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).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Kafue : 10 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 11 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 14.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
20,6°C
Annual rain
951mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
116mm/an
PET
1 731mm
AET
802mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
152cm
Forest
76%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
89%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)