HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081239890
Bassin de Lwange
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 : Gungu, Idiofa, Ilebo
Sub-basin area
3 497,5km²
Upstream area
41 111,7km²
Discharge
429,72m³/s
Mean elev.
501m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lwange348 km²
- Bassin de Lwange84 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1913.4 km²54.9% of basin
- 912.9 km²26.2% of basin
- 656.0 km²18.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mangai
IUCN VINature reserve
1.33 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 8 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,9°C
Annual rain
1 602mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,05
Runoff
273mm/an
PET
1 685mm
AET
1 325mm
Mean slope
5,5°
Water table
272cm
Forest
83%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)