HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081430730
Bassin de Shire
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 17 administrative regions : Blantyre City, SC Sitola, TA Chigaru, TA Chitera, TA Kapeni +12
Sub-basin area
2 480,5km²
Upstream area
137 024km²
Discharge
1 249,8m³/s
Mean elev.
666m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rivi Rivi1400 km²
- Bassin de Shire451 km²
17 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 539.9 km²21.8% of basin
- 481.0 km²19.5% of basin
- 254.8 km²10.3% of basin
- 176.0 km²7.1% of basin
- 167.2 km²6.8% of basin
- 134.5 km²5.4% of basin
- 134.5 km²5.4% of basin
- 117.9 km²4.8% of basin
9 moreFull L2 list
- SC Sitola84.2 km² · 3.4%
- TA Machinjili61.1 km² · 2.5%
- TA Makata59.4 km² · 2.4%
- TA Kunthembwe57.4 km² · 2.3%
- TA Chitera55.0 km² · 2.2%
- TA Malemia47.0 km² · 1.9%
- Blantyre City39.6 km² · 1.6%
- TA Mpama33.4 km² · 1.4%
- TA Mpando28.8 km² · 1.2%
4 intersecting protected areas
Zomba Malosa Fr
IUCN VIForest Reserve
67.24 km² overlap
Dzonze
IUCN VIForest Reserve
17.82 km² overlap
Liwonde Fr
IUCN VIForest Reserve
13.56 km² overlap
Ndirande
IUCN VIForest Reserve
4.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 018 distinct species · 3 568 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Shire : 31 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 49 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 6.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
22,8°C
Annual rain
1 019mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
243mm/an
PET
1 593mm
AET
838mm
Mean slope
3,4°
Water table
178cm
Forest
9%
Crops
5%
Urban
15%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)