HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081426890
Bassin de Phalombe
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 18 administrative regions : Blantyre City, Chiradzulu Boma, Lake Chilwa, Mulanje Mountain Forest Reserve, SC Juma +12
Sub-basin area
1 465,2km²
Upstream area
1 465,2km²
Discharge
19,81m³/s
Mean elev.
816m
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°
21,6°C
Annual rain
1 389mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
472mm/an
PET
1 544mm
AET
1 007mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
110cm
Forest
6%
Crops
16%
Urban
39%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)