HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081435420
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 : Nalolo, Senanga
Sub-basin area
0,4km²
Upstream area
287 936,2km²
Discharge
1 221,18m³/s
Mean elev.
1 006m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Zambezi920 km²
- Bassin de Zambezi229 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 0.4 km²99.4% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
West Zambezi
IUCN VIGame Management Area
0.24 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°
22,8°C
Annual rain
851mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,54
Runoff
77mm/an
PET
1 858mm
AET
717mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
5cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)