HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081454820
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
129,9km²
Upstream area
616 317,3km²
Discharge
1 205,61m³/s
Mean elev.
491m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Zambezi380 km²
- Bassin · #1081455620369 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 113.8 km²87.9% of basin
- 15.7 km²12.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lake Kariba
IUCN VRecreation Park
33.96 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
82 distinct species · 526 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°
25,0°C
Annual rain
720mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,62
Runoff
67mm/an
PET
1 892mm
AET
607mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
38cm
Forest
6%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
26%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)