HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081463200
Bassin de Zambeze
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 9 administrative regions across 2 countries : Chemba, Mutarara, Mwabvi Game Reserve, SC Makoka, TA Malemia +3
Sub-basin area
2 675,6km²
Upstream area
1 200 066,5km²
Discharge
3 145,71m³/s
Mean elev.
187m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081457470987 km²
- Bassin de Zambeze888 km²
9 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2349.9 km²88.1% of basin
- Chemba310.5 km²11.6% of basin
- 2.6 km²0.1% of basin
- 1.4 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.0% of basin
1 moreFull L2 list
- TA Ndamera0.2 km² · 0.0%
2 intersecting protected areas
Matandwe
IUCN VIForest Reserve
3.93 km² overlap
Mwabvi Wildlife Reserve
IUCN IVWildlife Reserve
0.62 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
160 distinct species · 241 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Zambeze : 27 espèces reliées par 46 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,4°C
Annual rain
839mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,55
Runoff
136mm/an
PET
1 858mm
AET
709mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
215cm
Forest
50%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)