HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081436190
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 : Itezhi-tezhi
Sub-basin area
309,5km²
Upstream area
107 263,3km²
Discharge
548,24m³/s
Mean elev.
1 016m
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°
21,1°C
Annual rain
815mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,54
Runoff
90mm/an
PET
1 786mm
AET
687mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
135cm
Forest
15%
Crops
1%
Urban
3%
Protected
56%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)