HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081425680
Bassin de Likangala
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 10 administrative regions : Lake Chilwa, SC Mbiza, SC Mkumbira, SC Mposa, TA Chikowi +5
Sub-basin area
1 330,8km²
Upstream area
1 331,1km²
Discharge
14,26m³/s
Mean elev.
762m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
10 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 352.9 km²26.6% of basin
- 318.2 km²24.0% of basin
- 161.5 km²12.2% of basin
- 141.7 km²10.7% of basin
- 86.3 km²6.5% of basin
- 80.8 km²6.1% of basin
- 79.2 km²6.0% of basin
- 65.4 km²4.9% of basin
2 moreFull L2 list
- Zomba City40.1 km² · 3.0%
- SC Mposa0.0 km² · 0.0%
2 intersecting protected areas
Lake Chilwa
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
461.48 km² overlap
Zomba Malosa Fr
IUCN VIForest Reserve
40.96 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 920 distinct species · 12 377 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Likangala : 32 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 37 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 6.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
22,0°C
Annual rain
1 279mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,18
Runoff
394mm/an
PET
1 561mm
AET
953mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
97cm
Forest
23%
Crops
14%
Urban
34%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)