HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081417790
Bassin de Zambezi
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 4 administrative regions : Kalabo, Limulunga, Lukulu, Mitete
Sub-basin area
308,9km²
Upstream area
215 045,6km²
Discharge
1 246,39m³/s
Mean elev.
1 026m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Zambezi557 km²
- Bassin de Zambezi372 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 193.9 km²63.0% of basin
- 76.0 km²24.7% of basin
- 30.0 km²9.8% of basin
- 7.8 km²2.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
West Zambezi
IUCN VIGame Management Area
98.79 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
81 distinct species · 100 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 19 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 Zambezi : 14 espèces reliées par 22 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
22,7°C
Annual rain
999mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,48
Runoff
138mm/an
PET
1 921mm
AET
844mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
4cm
Forest
26%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
37%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)