HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081421760
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 2 administrative regions : Kalabo, Limulunga
Sub-basin area
275,4km²
Upstream area
238 009,3km²
Discharge
1 264,97m³/s
Mean elev.
1 021m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Zambezi309 km²
- Bassin de Luena198 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 147.8 km²53.9% of basin
- 126.6 km²46.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
West Zambezi
IUCN VIGame Management Area
132.50 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
35 distinct species · 112 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 11 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 : 7 espèces reliées par 9 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 16.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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
1 001mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
128mm/an
PET
1 898mm
AET
845mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
3cm
Forest
7%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
45%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)