HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081453660
Bassin de Zambezi
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 across 2 countries : Gwembe, Kariba
Sub-basin area
539,1km²
Upstream area
539,3km²
Discharge
1,1m³/s
Mean elev.
570m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 532.7 km²99.2% of basin
- 4.5 km²0.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lake Kariba
IUCN VRecreation Park
22.98 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
27 distinct species · 49 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
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°
24,5°C
Annual rain
731mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,61
Runoff
60mm/an
PET
1 875mm
AET
616mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
253cm
Forest
9%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)