HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081437580
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 3 administrative regions : Cahora Bassa, Changara, Chiuta
Sub-basin area
830,1km²
Upstream area
1 100 871,5km²
Discharge
2 600,97m³/s
Mean elev.
397m
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°
25,8°C
Annual rain
788mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,59
Runoff
130mm/an
PET
1 932mm
AET
666mm
Mean slope
6,1°
Water table
525cm
Forest
7%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)