HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081452040
Bassin · #1081452040
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
492,6km²
Upstream area
492,6km²
Discharge
0,18m³/s
Mean elev.
1 023m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 490.9 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
West Zambezi
IUCN VIGame Management Area
490.92 km² overlap
Shelungu West
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
87.15 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 7 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°
22,2°C
Annual rain
753mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,60
Runoff
8mm/an
PET
1 861mm
AET
635mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
12cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
98%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)