HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081436300
Bassin de Shire
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 7 administrative regions : Majete Game Reserve - Mwanza, Majete Game Reserve - Neno, TA Kasisi, TA Kuntaja, TA Kunthembwe +2
Sub-basin area
561,3km²
Upstream area
139 036km²
Discharge
1 261,67m³/s
Mean elev.
413m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Shire2481 km²
- Bassin de Lisungwe1450 km²
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 338.5 km²60.5% of basin
- 207.2 km²37.0% of basin
- 5.8 km²1.0% of basin
- 4.4 km²0.8% of basin
- 3.0 km²0.5% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
South Masatwe
IUCN VIForest Reserve
20.21 km² overlap
Majete Wildlife Reserve
IUCN IVWildlife Reserve
6.17 km² overlap
North Masatwe
IUCN VIForest Reserve
3.90 km² overlap
Mlindi Hill
IUCN VIForest Reserve
2.52 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
350 distinct species · 635 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Shire : 21 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 34 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,3°C
Annual rain
907mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,46
Runoff
204mm/an
PET
1 696mm
AET
766mm
Mean slope
4,0°
Water table
286cm
Forest
4%
Crops
5%
Urban
1%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)