Recreation Park · zwe
Lake Kariba
- Area
- 3 001 km²
- IUCN cat.
- V
- Year
- 1979
Overview
- Designation
- Recreation Park
- IUCN category
- V · Paysage protégé
Paysage façonné par l'humain digne de conservation
- Established
- 1979
- Managing authority
- Not Reported
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
891 distinct species · 11 651 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 17 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 Lake Kariba : 15 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 14 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 10.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology44 basins · 3 lakes · 21 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
321,3km
Lake surface here
2 814,18km²
Basins crossed
44
Max stream order
8
Max drainage
679 662km²
Discharge in basins
11 865,7m³/s
Mean precip.
738mm/an
Mean T°
24,2°C
Moisture idx
-0,60
Mean runoff
72mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
606m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Sanyatisub-area1 758,9 km²overlap420.65 km²14%
- Bassin de Sinamwenda Riversub-area690,9 km²overlap233.79 km²8%
- Bassin de Mucheni Riversub-area2 716,9 km²overlap213.32 km²7%
- Bassin de Hogwe Riversub-area1 159,3 km²overlap188.22 km²6%
- Bassin de Zambezisub-area167,5 km²overlap149.02 km²5%
- Bassin de Sunde Riversub-area906,7 km²overlap127.86 km²4%
- Bassin de Mukadzapelasub-area274 km²overlap118.96 km²4%
- Bassin de Zambezisub-area179 km²overlap118.73 km²4%
- Bassin de Zambezisub-area380,4 km²overlap116.92 km²4%
35 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de Zambezisub-area126,4 km²overlap112.59 km²4%
- Bassin de Zambezisub-area1 612,7 km²overlap88.73 km²3%
- Basin #53970sub-area89,5 km²overlap88.65 km²3%
- Bassin de Zambezisub-area93,2 km²overlap87.30 km²3%
- Bassin de Sengwa Riversub-area107,4 km²overlap85.75 km²3%
- Bassin de Nyanyana Riversub-area196,4 km²overlap84.94 km²3%
- Bassin de Chalala Riversub-area131 km²overlap78.43 km²3%
- Basin #55620sub-area369,3 km²overlap76.40 km²3%
- Bassin de Sanyatisub-area69 km²overlap65.87 km²2%
- Bassin de Zambezisub-area322,5 km²overlap59.63 km²2%
- Bassin de Lwizilukulu River,sub-area1 669,3 km²overlap52.85 km²2%
- Bassin de Zezesub-area615,3 km²overlap46.58 km²2%
- Bassin de Nyaodzasub-area194,7 km²overlap45.02 km²2%
- Bassin de Lufuasub-area3 260,6 km²overlap35.93 km²1%
- Bassin de Sengwa Riversub-area221,5 km²overlap35.04 km²1%
- Bassin de Charara Riversub-area902,7 km²overlap34.83 km²1%
- Bassin de Zambezisub-area129,9 km²overlap33.96 km²1%
- Bassin de Sengwa Riversub-area211,1 km²overlap29.86 km²1%
- Bassin de Bizhi Riversub-area26,8 km²overlap26.69 km²1%
- Bassin de Zambezisub-area539,1 km²overlap22.98 km²1%
- Bassin de Zambezisub-area128,9 km²overlap22.83 km²1%
- Bassin de Zambezisub-area378,6 km²overlap19.58 km²1%
- Bassin de Jongolasub-area1 234,7 km²overlap15.18 km²1%
- Bassin de Zambezisub-area345,1 km²overlap13.59 km²0%
- Bassin de Sebungwesub-area1 980,1 km²overlap13.13 km²0%
- Bassin de Zambezisub-area258,4 km²overlap10.28 km²0%
- Bassin de Sanyatisub-area7,9 km²overlap7.87 km²0%
- Bassin de Mlibizisub-area2 687,2 km²overlap7.42 km²0%
- Basin #52560sub-area4,7 km²overlap4.71 km²0%
- Basin #57400sub-area3,1 km²overlap3.06 km²0%
- Bassin de Chezyasub-area2 370,1 km²overlap2.73 km²0%
- Bassin de Sengwa Riversub-area272,9 km²overlap0.28 km²0%
- Bassin de Sengwa Riversub-area169,7 km²overlap0.28 km²0%
- Bassin de Zambezisub-area4,8 km²overlap0.26 km²0%
- Bassin de Sanyatisub-area0,2 km²overlap0.21 km²0%
Lakes (3, top by area)
Rivers / streams (21, ord ≥ 4)
- Zambeziord 8len here165.19 km4%total4593 km
- Sanyatiord 8len here41.62 km15%total284 km
- Sengwa Riverord 8len here41.49 km8%total537 km
- Bizhi Riverord 8len here26.86 km93%total29 km
- Mukadzapelaord 2len here7.43 km38%total20 km
- Mlibiziord 4len here6.43 km7%total99 km
- Nyanyana Riverord 2len here4.24 km21%total20 km
- Sinamwenda Riverord 3len here4.21 km7%total57 km
- Chura Riverord 1len here3.55 km29%total12 km
- Jenje Riverord 2len here3.27 km25%total13 km
- Sebungweord 4len here2.78 km3%total108 km
- Kabuya Riverord 1len here2.71 km37%total7 km
9 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Nyaodzaord 4len here2.62 km2%total149 km
- Chalala Riverord 1len here1.79 km32%total6 km
- Nyamuni Riverord 1len here1.64 km30%total5 km
- Charara Riverord 3len here1.44 km1%total119 km
- Kanjedza Riverord 1len here1.17 km12%total9 km
- Sakataord 4len here1.07 km13%total9 km
- Mwenze Riverord 2len here0.76 km3%total25 km
- Maronga Riverord 2len here0.54 km3%total17 km
- Gubu Riverord 2len here0.45 km2%total23 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- -17.25765, 27.65587
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.