Ontologia

HydroLAKES lake · #16178

Kafue Gorge Dam

ReservoirZambiaAfrica 977 m

Surface area

12,95km²

Avg depth

60,6m

Volume

785km³

Shoreline

33,2km

Administrative coverage

Parent watershed

hybas-10814381902289 km² · upstream 154358 km²

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Kafue
    Lusaka · Zambia
    12.72 km²
    98.5% of lake
  • Chikankanta
    Southern · Zambia
    0.19 km²
    1.5% of lake

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Ntombolole

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    0.02 km² overlap

Computed live · HydroLAKES × GADM × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

14 distinct species · 27 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

27 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 27
27–26
27–26
27–26
< 27

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Lake statistics (HydroLAKES)

Surface

12,95km²

Avg depth

60,6m

Volume

785,000km³

Watershed

153 294km²

Shoreline

33,2km

Shore dev. idx

2,60

Residence time

19days

Elevation

977m

HydroLAKES v1.0 (Messager et al. 2016) · 1.4M lacs ≥ 0.1 km² mondialement.