HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081467670
Bassin de Machile
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 3 administrative regions : Kazungula, Mulobezi, Mwandi
Sub-basin area
845,1km²
Upstream area
9 734km²
Discharge
10,65m³/s
Mean elev.
966m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Machile376 km²
- Bassin de Simatanga267 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 344.0 km²40.8% of basin
- 327.8 km²38.9% of basin
- 170.5 km²20.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kazanamena
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
6.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
272 distinct species · 1 711 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 10 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 Machile : 8 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 10 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 18.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
22,1°C
Annual rain
736mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,61
Runoff
35mm/an
PET
1 869mm
AET
621mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
26cm
Forest
10%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)