HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081421460
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 7 administrative regions : Liwonda National Park, Liwonde Town, SC Mlomba, TA Kalembo, TA Kawinga +2
Sub-basin area
992,2km²
Upstream area
132 381,3km²
Discharge
1 231,12m³/s
Mean elev.
549m
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
1 002mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
233mm/an
PET
1 646mm
AET
839mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
75cm
Forest
9%
Crops
8%
Urban
4%
Protected
31%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)