HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081436360
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
9,2km²
Upstream area
108 684,5km²
Discharge
548,98m³/s
Mean elev.
990m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Nkala1412 km²
- Bassin de Kafue310 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 9.1 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Namwala
IUCN VIGame Management Area
4.89 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
21,1°C
Annual rain
805mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,55
Runoff
100mm/an
PET
1 789mm
AET
678mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
6cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)