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
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°
20,6°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)