HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081434400
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 1 administrative regions : Mazabuka
Sub-basin area
20,5km²
Upstream area
137 118,6km²
Discharge
501,46m³/s
Mean elev.
980m
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°
21,4°C
Annual rain
820mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,54
Runoff
153mm/an
PET
1 776mm
AET
692mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
2cm
Forest
37%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)