HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081466220
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 2 administrative regions : Chemba, Mutarara
Sub-basin area
96,7km²
Upstream area
1 203 269,6km²
Discharge
3 157,38m³/s
Mean elev.
76m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Zambeze475 km²
- Bassin de Zambeze167 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Chemba72.4 km²75.1% of basin
- 24.0 km²24.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
265 distinct species · 3 140 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 21 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 : 17 espèces reliées par 19 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
25,7°C
Annual rain
752mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,61
Runoff
163mm/an
PET
1 919mm
AET
635mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
71cm
Forest
59%
Crops
13%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)