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
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ntobwa513 km²
- Bassin de Likuzi406 km²
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 324.9 km²32.9% of basin
- 317.1 km²32.1% of basin
- 300.5 km²30.4% of basin
- 30.6 km²3.1% of basin
- 7.1 km²0.7% of basin
- 5.0 km²0.5% of basin
- 3.5 km²0.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Liwonde National Park
IUCN IINational Park
317.59 km² overlap
Liwonde Fr
IUCN VIForest Reserve
13.89 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
927 distinct species · 23 945 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 Shire : 16 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 17 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 9.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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
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)