HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081310620
Bassin de Kalumengongo
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 : Mitwaba, Pweto
Sub-basin area
948,7km²
Upstream area
948,8km²
Discharge
9,3m³/s
Mean elev.
1 487m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 925.0 km²97.9% of basin
- 19.8 km²2.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Bassin de la Lufira
IUCN IIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
28.91 km² overlap
Upemba
IUCN IINational Park
23.81 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
95 distinct species · 176 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°
20,6°C
Annual rain
1 163mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
260mm/an
PET
1 558mm
AET
960mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
330cm
Forest
89%
Crops
16%
Urban
0%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)