HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081434250
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 : Mazabuka, Mumbwa
Sub-basin area
24,3km²
Upstream area
136 856,8km²
Discharge
501,46m³/s
Mean elev.
981m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kafue231 km²
- Bassin de Kafue18 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 23.5 km²97.1% of basin
- 0.7 km²2.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kafue Flats
IUCN VIGame Management Area
24.21 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,4°C
Annual rain
823mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,54
Runoff
153mm/an
PET
1 779mm
AET
694mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
4cm
Forest
36%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)