HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081436550
Bassin de Nanzhila
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 : Itezhi-tezhi, Namwala
Sub-basin area
604,4km²
Upstream area
7 068,5km²
Discharge
10,76m³/s
Mean elev.
1 026m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Nanzhila966 km²
- Bassin de Nanzhila847 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 473.5 km²78.6% of basin
- 128.8 km²21.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Ila (Zambia)
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
96.51 km² overlap
Sikaleta
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
42.26 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
31 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°
20,9°C
Annual rain
814mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,54
Runoff
82mm/an
PET
1 780mm
AET
687mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
94cm
Forest
14%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
28%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)