HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081470720
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
912,3km²
Upstream area
160 510,5km²
Discharge
597,07m³/s
Mean elev.
124m
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°
25,3°C
Annual rain
869mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,54
Runoff
226mm/an
PET
1 880mm
AET
731mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
123cm
Forest
56%
Crops
6%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)