HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081451570
Bassin de Sanyati
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 : Kariba, Kariba Urban
Sub-basin area
69km²
Upstream area
4 627km²
Discharge
10,76m³/s
Mean elev.
493m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sunde River907 km²
- Bassin de Nyanyana River196 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 66.4 km²96.5% of basin
- 2.4 km²3.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lake Kariba
IUCN VRecreation Park
65.87 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
375 distinct species · 1 116 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Sanyati : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 36 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
730mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,60
Runoff
82mm/an
PET
1 848mm
AET
616mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
41cm
Forest
0%
Crops
7%
Urban
3%
Protected
96%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)