HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081430860
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 3 administrative regions : Cahora Bassa, Chiuta, Maravia
Sub-basin area
1 242,8km²
Upstream area
1 068 771,5km²
Discharge
2 555,03m³/s
Mean elev.
494m
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°
25,2°C
Annual rain
751mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,62
Runoff
144mm/an
PET
1 959mm
AET
635mm
Mean slope
10,7°
Water table
669cm
Forest
0%
Crops
3%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)