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HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081432720

Bassin · #1081432720

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 : Maravia

36% lakePfafstetter: 12237306

Sub-basin area

470,5km²

Upstream area

470,5km²

Discharge

1,86m³/s

Mean elev.

618m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Zambezi126 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Tchuma tchato

    IUCN VI

    Community Conservation Area

    468.88 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

3 distinct species · 6 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

6 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 5
5–4
5–4
5–4
< 5

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

23,2°C

Annual rain

829mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,54

Runoff

125mm/an

PET

1 816mm

AET

698mm

Mean slope

5,1°

Water table

443cm

Forest

33%

Crops

3%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)