HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081447070
Bassin · #1081447070
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
370,3km²
Upstream area
370,4km²
Discharge
0,34m³/s
Mean elev.
1 026m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 318.3 km²86.2% of basin
- 50.7 km²13.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
West Zambezi
IUCN VIGame Management Area
369.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
22,4°C
Annual rain
789mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
12mm/an
PET
1 860mm
AET
666mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
11cm
Forest
3%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)