HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081475190
Bassin de Zambezi
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 across 2 countries : Hwange, Kazungula, Livingstone
Sub-basin area
520,1km²
Upstream area
520 031,1km²
Discharge
1 064,13m³/s
Mean elev.
986m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Zambezi477 km²
- Bassin de Zambezi226 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 269.3 km²52.0% of basin
- 178.9 km²34.5% of basin
- 70.2 km²13.5% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Zambezi
IUCN IINational Park
195.50 km² overlap
Matetsi
IUCN VISafari Area
51.68 km² overlap
Simonga
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
33.00 km² overlap
Forest Reserve Name Unknown (ZMB) No.98
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
22.22 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
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°
22,3°C
Annual rain
688mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,63
Runoff
43mm/an
PET
1 862mm
AET
580mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
361cm
Forest
70%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
58%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)