HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081438860
Bassin de Nyambiri River
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 across 2 countries : Chirundu, Hurungwe, Kafue
Sub-basin area
223,5km²
Upstream area
683 379,1km²
Discharge
1 323,53m³/s
Mean elev.
426m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Chipandaure River508 km²
- Bassin de Zambezi214 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 126.8 km²56.9% of basin
- 95.8 km²43.0% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Hurungwe
IUCN VISafari Area
106.69 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
892 distinct species · 19 797 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 10 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 Nyambiri River : 8 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) + 2 bulles famille, 9 interactions GloBI documentées sur 2 types (connectance 20.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 2 bulles regroupent des espèces visuellement absorbées par famille (≥3 espèces visibles).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,8°C
Annual rain
668mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,64
Runoff
98mm/an
PET
1 861mm
AET
564mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
188cm
Forest
0%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
48%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)