HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081445860
Bassin · #1081445860
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 : Shang'ombo, Sioma
Sub-basin area
331,3km²
Upstream area
3 916,5km²
Discharge
9,19m³/s
Mean elev.
1 020m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081447210429 km²
- Bassin · #1081447070370 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 181.0 km²54.8% of basin
- 149.2 km²45.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
West Zambezi
IUCN VIGame Management Area
330.17 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
22,5°C
Annual rain
778mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
26mm/an
PET
1 861mm
AET
657mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
20cm
Forest
39%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)