HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081455000
Bassin de Simatanga
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 : Kazungula
Sub-basin area
26km²
Upstream area
953,9km²
Discharge
0,97m³/s
Mean elev.
1 020m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081454220219 km²
- Bassin de Chisowa95 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Sichifulo
IUCN VIGame Management Area
25.95 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 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°
21,5°C
Annual rain
805mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
35mm/an
PET
1 821mm
AET
680mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
31cm
Forest
0%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)