HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081260390
Bassin de Lugufu
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 1 administrative regions : Mpanda Rural
Sub-basin area
631,5km²
Upstream area
631,5km²
Discharge
2,09m³/s
Mean elev.
1 436m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 628.7 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ugalla Niensi O.A.
IUCN Not ReportedOpen area
54.26 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
32 distinct species · 77 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°
21,4°C
Annual rain
1 101mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
92mm/an
PET
1 592mm
AET
920mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
261cm
Forest
94%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)