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
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lugola584 km²
- Bassin · #108140213074 km²
14 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 943.0 km²25.3% of basin
- 605.6 km²16.3% of basin
- 486.7 km²13.1% of basin
- 370.5 km²10.0% of basin
- 274.7 km²7.4% of basin
- 248.4 km²6.7% of basin
- 219.1 km²5.9% of basin
- 213.3 km²5.7% of basin
6 moreFull L2 list
- SC Mbwana Nyambi198.8 km² · 5.3%
- TA Katuli98.2 km² · 2.6%
- TA Makanjila41.2 km² · 1.1%
- Mangochi Town12.4 km² · 0.3%
- Monkey Bay Urban10.7 km² · 0.3%
- N'gauma0.1 km² · 0.0%
8 intersecting protected areas
Namizimu
IUCN VIForest Reserve
546.74 km² overlap
Mangochi
IUCN VIForest Reserve
188.05 km² overlap
Liwonde National Park
IUCN IINational Park
68.72 km² overlap
Lake Malawi National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
23.17 km² overlap
Lake Malawi National Park
IUCN IINational Park
22.03 km² overlap
Mangochi Palm
IUCN VIForest Reserve
5.01 km² overlap
Phirilongwe
IUCN VIForest Reserve
3.45 km² overlap
Nkopola
IUCN VIForest Reserve
0.86 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 556 distinct species · 10 831 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 23 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 Shire : 19 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 21 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
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)