HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081430570
Bassin de Zambezi
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 2 administrative regions : Cahora Bassa, Maravia
Sub-basin area
394,7km²
Upstream area
1 066 814,3km²
Discharge
2 723,24m³/s
Mean elev.
460m
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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
711mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,64
Runoff
140mm/an
PET
1 984mm
AET
601mm
Mean slope
6,2°
Water table
429cm
Forest
4%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)