HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081435410
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 1 administrative regions : Nalolo
Sub-basin area
228,9km²
Upstream area
287 016,5km²
Discharge
1 218,1m³/s
Mean elev.
1 016m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Zambezi1478 km²
- Bassin de Zambezi272 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
West Zambezi
IUCN VIGame Management Area
195.48 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
26 distinct species · 43 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°
22,8°C
Annual rain
861mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,54
Runoff
54mm/an
PET
1 857mm
AET
727mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
51cm
Forest
26%
Crops
1%
Urban
8%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)