HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081465680
Bassin de Shire
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 : Morrumbala, Mutarara
Sub-basin area
412,4km²
Upstream area
159 141,2km²
Discharge
587,87m³/s
Mean elev.
202m
Administrative coverage
Species present
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°
24,8°C
Annual rain
898mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
245mm/an
PET
1 850mm
AET
759mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
229cm
Forest
99%
Crops
11%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)