HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081450700
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 2 administrative regions : SC Mbenje, TA Mlolo
Sub-basin area
22,2km²
Upstream area
146 865,8km²
Discharge
635,65m³/s
Mean elev.
49m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lalanje189 km²
- Bassin de Shire9 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 18.2 km²82.4% of basin
- 3.9 km²17.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Elephant Marsh
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
17.41 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
396 distinct species · 2 200 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 : 16 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 31 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
25,7°C
Annual rain
882mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,52
Runoff
203mm/an
PET
1 844mm
AET
745mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
8cm
Forest
97%
Crops
9%
Urban
31%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)