HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081446100
Bassin · #1081446100
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 1 administrative regions : Shang'ombo
Sub-basin area
720,5km²
Upstream area
720,5km²
Discharge
0,2m³/s
Mean elev.
1 034m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 718.0 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
West Zambezi
IUCN VIGame Management Area
717.99 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
22,2°C
Annual rain
800mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,57
Runoff
9mm/an
PET
1 861mm
AET
675mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
8cm
Forest
5%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)