Wildlife Reserve · mwi
Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve
- Area
- 1 785 km²
- IUCN cat.
- IV
- Year
- 1954
Overview
- Designation
- Wildlife Reserve
- IUCN category
- IV · Aire d'habitats / espèces
Gestion active pour maintenir habitats / espèces particuliers
- Established
- 1954
- Managing authority
- Group (Department of National Parks and Wildlife in Partnership with African Parks)
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
642 distinct species · 2 676 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 21 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 Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve : 19 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 15 interactions GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 7.1%, 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).
Hydrology6 basins · 0 lakes · 5 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
222,5km
Basins crossed
6
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
99 426km²
Discharge in basins
28,4m³/s
Mean precip.
1 133mm/an
Mean T°
21,6°C
Moisture idx
-0,25
Mean runoff
193mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
885m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Buasub-area2 724,6 km²overlap645.01 km²36%
- Bassin de Dwangwasub-area865,5 km²overlap467.66 km²26%
- Bassin de Nachiwalisub-area799,4 km²overlap358.73 km²20%
- Bassin de Lifulizasub-area1 390,1 km²overlap186.31 km²10%
- Bassin de Liwaladzisub-area601,2 km²overlap121.96 km²7%
- Basin #87440sub-area2 407,1 km²overlap5.59 km²0%
Rivers / streams (5, ord ≥ 4)
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
- -12.87428, 34.06000
- Open in maps
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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.