HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081433050
Bassin de Kafue
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 : Itezhi-tezhi, Namwala
Sub-basin area
2 169,3km²
Upstream area
117 922,8km²
Discharge
546,77m³/s
Mean elev.
1 047m
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°
20,8°C
Annual rain
820mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,54
Runoff
93mm/an
PET
1 769mm
AET
692mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
134cm
Forest
30%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
80%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)