HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081424480
Bassin de Chongwe
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 3 administrative regions : Chibombo, Chisamba, Chongwe
Sub-basin area
809,1km²
Upstream area
809,5km²
Discharge
2,93m³/s
Mean elev.
1 144m
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°
20,7°C
Annual rain
858mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,48
Runoff
114mm/an
PET
1 656mm
AET
724mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
110cm
Forest
23%
Crops
3%
Urban
1%
Protected
14%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)