HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081445650
Bassin de Shire
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 5 administrative regions : SC Mphuka, TA Lundu, TA Makhwira, TA Maseya, TA Ngabu
Sub-basin area
299,9km²
Upstream area
143 955km²
Discharge
1 272,99m³/s
Mean elev.
222m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Shire1961 km²
- Bassin de Mwanza1757 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 114.3 km²38.2% of basin
- 99.2 km²33.2% of basin
- 80.5 km²26.9% of basin
- 3.9 km²1.3% of basin
- 1.0 km²0.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Elephant Marsh
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
95.48 km² overlap
Thyolo Mountain
IUCN VIForest Reserve
6.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
317 distinct species · 13 766 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 23 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 Shire : 19 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 21 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
888mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
214mm/an
PET
1 767mm
AET
739mm
Mean slope
3,8°
Water table
124cm
Forest
99%
Crops
14%
Urban
24%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)