HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081462340
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 1 administrative regions : Sinazongwe
Sub-basin area
4,8km²
Upstream area
599 838,8km²
Discharge
1 170,1m³/s
Mean elev.
487m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lwizilukulu River,1669 km²
- Bassin de Zeze615 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 4.8 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lake Kariba
IUCN VRecreation Park
0.26 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
20 distinct species · 48 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°
24,7°C
Annual rain
772mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,59
Runoff
77mm/an
PET
1 885mm
AET
652mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
5cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)