HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081438190
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 6 administrative regions : Chikankanta, Chilanga, Chirundu, Kafue, Lusaka +1
Sub-basin area
2 288,7km²
Upstream area
154 357,7km²
Discharge
487,38m³/s
Mean elev.
1 055m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kaleya1846 km²
- Bassin · #108143400044 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1142.1 km²50.1% of basin
- 905.2 km²39.7% of basin
- 187.8 km²8.2% of basin
- 37.3 km²1.6% of basin
- 8.3 km²0.4% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
8 intersecting protected areas
Ntombolole
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
103.26 km² overlap
Forest Reserve Name Unknown (ZMB) No.84
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
66.05 km² overlap
Lusitu Headwaters
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
40.11 km² overlap
Lusaka
IUCN Not ReportedNational Park
35.90 km² overlap
Kafue
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
24.07 km² overlap
Lusaka South
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
23.93 km² overlap
Lusaka South Ext
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
6.21 km² overlap
Chiawa
IUCN VIGame Management Area
0.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 442 distinct species · 16 720 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Kafue : 28 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 27 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 5.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
21,5°C
Annual rain
768mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,54
Runoff
99mm/an
PET
1 684mm
AET
648mm
Mean slope
5,4°
Water table
404cm
Forest
53%
Crops
8%
Urban
5%
Protected
15%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)