HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081425070
Bassin de Shire
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 5 administrative regions : Liwonde Town, SC Sitola, TA Kalembo, TA Mlumbe, TA Nsamala
Sub-basin area
450,9km²
Upstream area
133 144,4km²
Discharge
1 233,36m³/s
Mean elev.
549m
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°
23,4°C
Annual rain
1 005mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
197mm/an
PET
1 632mm
AET
843mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
118cm
Forest
14%
Crops
7%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)