HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081419080
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 : Mufumbwe, Mumbwa
Sub-basin area
1 160,5km²
Upstream area
93 772,3km²
Discharge
543,25m³/s
Mean elev.
1 124m
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°
20,7°C
Annual rain
940mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,46
Runoff
103mm/an
PET
1 752mm
AET
794mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
126cm
Forest
43%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
98%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)