HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081423230
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 : Mumbwa, Nkeyema
Sub-basin area
2 590,4km²
Upstream area
98 415,6km²
Discharge
553,05m³/s
Mean elev.
1 147m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mukombo2053 km²
- Bassin de Kafue1161 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2580.1 km²100.0% of basin
- 1.0 km²0.0% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Kafue
IUCN IINational Park
1472.21 km² overlap
Mumbwa
IUCN VIGame Management Area
1108.91 km² overlap
Forest Reserve Name Unknown (ZMB) No.79
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
147.30 km² overlap
Forest Reserve Name Unknown (ZMB) No.76
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
52.26 km² overlap
Mufunta
IUCN Not ReportedGame Management Area
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
704 distinct species · 12 049 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 16 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 Kafue : 14 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 16 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 13.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
20,6°C
Annual rain
913mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,48
Runoff
93mm/an
PET
1 752mm
AET
771mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
157cm
Forest
61%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
98%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)