HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081425650
Bassin de Kabile
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, Mumbwa, Shibuyunji
Sub-basin area
558,9km²
Upstream area
559,3km²
Discharge
2,03m³/s
Mean elev.
1 093m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 295.2 km²53.0% of basin
- ShibuyunjiLusaka · Zambia206.7 km²37.1% of basin
- 55.0 km²9.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kawena
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
134.66 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 6 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,1°C
Annual rain
879mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
113mm/an
PET
1 709mm
AET
742mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
107cm
Forest
31%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
24%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)