HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081316290
Bassin · #1081316290
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 : Kaputa, Nsama
Sub-basin area
16,2km²
Upstream area
9 707,4km²
Discharge
84,28m³/s
Mean elev.
936m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lunsangwe2020 km²
- Bassin · #1081315980686 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 11.1 km²69.2% of basin
- 5.0 km²30.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mweru Wantipa
IUCN IINational Park
16.10 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
23,8°C
Annual rain
1 100mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
138mm/an
PET
1 745mm
AET
932mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
29cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)