HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081315560
Bassin de Lufubu
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 : Mpulungu, Nsama
Sub-basin area
460,6km²
Upstream area
7 591,5km²
Discharge
79,58m³/s
Mean elev.
1 206m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lufubu498 km²
- Bassin de Lubaleshi14 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 278.1 km²60.6% of basin
- 180.6 km²39.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nsumbu
IUCN IINational Park
414.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 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°
22,5°C
Annual rain
1 200mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
280mm/an
PET
1 689mm
AET
951mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
134cm
Forest
66%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
89%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)