HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081415200
Bassin de Shire
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 14 administrative regions across 2 countries : Lake Malawi, Lake Malombe, Mangochi Town, Monkey Bay Urban, N'gauma +9
Sub-basin area
3 736,3km²
Upstream area
130 102,7km²
Discharge
1 216,09m³/s
Mean elev.
627m
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°
23,6°C
Annual rain
917mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
247mm/an
PET
1 611mm
AET
764mm
Mean slope
3,4°
Water table
165cm
Forest
32%
Crops
16%
Urban
7%
Protected
23%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)