HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081433090
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 4 administrative regions : Chilanga, Kafue, Mazabuka, Shibuyunji
Sub-basin area
645,1km²
Upstream area
149 591,3km²
Discharge
477,43m³/s
Mean elev.
1 028m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mwembeshi343 km²
- Bassin de Kafue160 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- ShibuyunjiLusaka · Zambia231.5 km²36.0% of basin
- 208.6 km²32.4% of basin
- 163.3 km²25.4% of basin
- 39.5 km²6.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kafue Flats
IUCN VIGame Management Area
3.22 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
229 distinct species · 377 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Kafue : 24 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 38 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
21,2°C
Annual rain
797mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
105mm/an
PET
1 712mm
AET
672mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
67cm
Forest
9%
Crops
3%
Urban
2%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)