HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081424680
Bassin de Ngwerere
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, Chongwe, Lusaka
Sub-basin area
330,7km²
Upstream area
330,8km²
Discharge
1,16m³/s
Mean elev.
1 195m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 184.8 km²56.1% of basin
- 125.1 km²38.0% of basin
- 19.6 km²6.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lusaka East
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
0.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 421 distinct species · 44 034 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 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 Ngwerere : 21 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 20 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.7%, 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°
20,6°C
Annual rain
841mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,48
Runoff
111mm/an
PET
1 629mm
AET
709mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
148cm
Forest
15%
Crops
1%
Urban
58%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)