HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081446160
Bassin · #1081446160
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
319,3km²
Upstream area
2 065,5km²
Discharge
1,76m³/s
Mean elev.
1 029m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10814443001056 km²
- Bassin · #1081444470690 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 318.3 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
West Zambezi
IUCN VIGame Management Area
318.25 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 10 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°
22,1°C
Annual rain
774mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
9mm/an
PET
1 861mm
AET
654mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
14cm
Forest
2%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)