HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081429420
Bassin · #1081429420
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 1 administrative regions : Itezhi-tezhi
Sub-basin area
238km²
Upstream area
238km²
Discharge
0,48m³/s
Mean elev.
1 180m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 237.2 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kafue
IUCN IINational Park
237.20 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 2 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°
20,5°C
Annual rain
864mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
58mm/an
PET
1 763mm
AET
730mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
233cm
Forest
94%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)