HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081418220
Bassin de Mlili
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 6 administrative regions : Lake Chiuta, SC Chikweo, SC Chiwalo, SC Mbwana Nyambi, TA Kawinga +1
Sub-basin area
396km²
Upstream area
396,1km²
Discharge
4,66m³/s
Mean elev.
691m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 246.8 km²62.6% of basin
- 96.8 km²24.5% of basin
- 42.2 km²10.7% of basin
- 4.6 km²1.2% of basin
- 2.4 km²0.6% of basin
- 1.6 km²0.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lake Chilwa
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
14.54 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
14 distinct species · 18 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
23,0°C
Annual rain
1 100mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
383mm/an
PET
1 630mm
AET
885mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
81cm
Forest
6%
Crops
17%
Urban
17%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)