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
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Shire992 km²
- Bassin de Likwenu312 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 318.2 km²70.8% of basin
- 97.0 km²21.6% of basin
- 21.9 km²4.9% of basin
- 11.7 km²2.6% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Liwonde Fr
IUCN VIForest Reserve
22.40 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
620 distinct species · 4 022 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 26 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 Shire : 22 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 21 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.5%, 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°
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)