HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081250540
Bassin de Lubue
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 2 administrative regions : Gungu, Idiofa
Sub-basin area
1 510,7km²
Upstream area
2 462,6km²
Discharge
30,92m³/s
Mean elev.
684m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lubue670 km²
- Bassin de Lufushi282 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1451.3 km²96.5% of basin
- 52.8 km²3.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mangai
IUCN VINature reserve
7.61 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
34 distinct species · 44 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°
23,9°C
Annual rain
1 639mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,01
Runoff
370mm/an
PET
1 650mm
AET
1 314mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
295cm
Forest
24%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)