HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081434760
Bassin de Zambezi
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 : Cahora Bassa, Chiuta
Sub-basin area
482,1km²
Upstream area
1 098 484,4km²
Discharge
2 673,34m³/s
Mean elev.
379m
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°
25,9°C
Annual rain
775mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,60
Runoff
136mm/an
PET
1 964mm
AET
655mm
Mean slope
7,3°
Water table
531cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)