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
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
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)