HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081313960
Bassin de Chambeshi
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 : Mpulungu
Sub-basin area
528,9km²
Upstream area
529,2km²
Discharge
4,88m³/s
Mean elev.
1 374m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 intersecting protected areas
Nsumbu
IUCN IINational Park
194.30 km² overlap
Forest Reserve Name Unknown (ZMB) No.2
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
13.06 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°
21,7°C
Annual rain
1 220mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,26
Runoff
292mm/an
PET
1 646mm
AET
940mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
220cm
Forest
100%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
35%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)