National Park · zmb
Lower Zambezi
- Area
- 4 138 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1983
Overview
- Designation
- National Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1983
- Managing authority
- Department of National Parks and Wildlife
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
740 distinct species · 25 344 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 Lower Zambezi : 8 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) + 2 bulles famille, 9 interactions GloBI documentées sur 2 types (connectance 20.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 2 bulles regroupent des espèces visuellement absorbées par famille (≥3 espèces visibles).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology9 basins · 0 lakes · 17 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
504,1km
Basins crossed
9
Max stream order
8
Max drainage
859 018km²
Discharge in basins
1 858,1m³/s
Mean precip.
768mm/an
Mean T°
22,7°C
Moisture idx
-0,56
Mean runoff
83mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
770m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Chakwengasub-area2 640,1 km²overlap1850.36 km²45%
- Bassin de Mwambashisub-area1 446,5 km²overlap945.32 km²23%
- Bassin de Rufunsasub-area2 318,1 km²overlap619.78 km²15%
- Bassin de Zambezisub-area2 030,7 km²overlap357.76 km²9%
- Bassin de Sapi Riversub-area1 613,4 km²overlap184.42 km²4%
- Bassin de Chongwesub-area1 127,9 km²overlap157.77 km²4%
- Basin #18480sub-area1 828,6 km²overlap17.95 km²0%
- Bassin de Luangwasub-area275,3 km²overlap4.68 km²0%
- Bassin de Zambezisub-area550 km²overlap0.01 km²0%
Rivers / streams (17, ord ≥ 4)
- Mwambashiord 4len here126.83 km59%total215 km
- Zambeziord 8len here100.07 km2%total4593 km
- Chakwengaord 8len here87.11 km82%total106 km
- Mushikaord 3len here61.05 km99%total62 km
- Rufunsaord 4len here45.14 km19%total234 km
- Chongweord 4len here24.88 km6%total414 km
- Lusangashiord 3len here18.06 km13%total135 km
- Choweord 2len here15.11 km100%total15 km
- Kangaluwiord 1len here11.98 km100%total12 km
- Nyampandeord 2len here9.30 km20%total46 km
- Ikandoord 1len here4.06 km31%total13 km
- Mana Riverord 3len here0.35 km3%total13 km
5 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
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
- -15.45109, 29.79624
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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.