HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081434060
Bassin de Chongwe
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 : Chongwe, Kafue, Luangwa, Rufunsa
Sub-basin area
1 127,9km²
Upstream area
5 150,5km²
Discharge
16,9m³/s
Mean elev.
1 087m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Chongwe763 km²
- Bassin de Luimba588 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 600.4 km²53.4% of basin
- 517.9 km²46.1% of basin
- 3.8 km²0.3% of basin
- 2.0 km²0.2% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Chiawa
IUCN VIGame Management Area
592.10 km² overlap
Lower Zambezi
IUCN IINational Park
157.77 km² overlap
Mana Pools National Park, Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
0.09 km² overlap
Mana Pools
IUCN IINational Park
0.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
235 distinct species · 794 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Chongwe : 27 espèces dont 4 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 24 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 5.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
21,0°C
Annual rain
762mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
89mm/an
PET
1 640mm
AET
643mm
Mean slope
9,0°
Water table
621cm
Forest
95%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
84%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)