HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081453310
Bassin de Bizhi River
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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Gwembe, Kariba, Siavonga
Sub-basin area
26,8km²
Upstream area
617 103,9km²
Discharge
1 207,57m³/s
Mean elev.
487m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Zambezi539 km²
- Bassin · #108145397090 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 26.0 km²97.5% of basin
- 0.6 km²2.4% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lake Kariba
IUCN VRecreation Park
26.69 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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°
25,2°C
Annual rain
710mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,62
Runoff
71mm/an
PET
1 891mm
AET
598mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
4cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)