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
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°
20,6°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)