Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081434620

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

Pfafstetter: 12261503

Sub-basin area

7,6km²

Upstream area

137 862,1km²

Discharge

502,49m³/s

Mean elev.

979m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Kafue355 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Kafue Flats

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    7.59 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

2 distinct species · 2 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

2 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 2
2–1
2–1
2–1
< 2

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

21,4°C

Annual rain

813mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,54

Runoff

147mm/an

PET

1 779mm

AET

687mm

Mean slope

0,0°

Water table

1cm

Forest

24%

Crops

5%

Urban

0%

Protected

100%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)