HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081316420
Bassin de Mukubwe
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 3 administrative regions : Kaputa, Mporokoso, Nsama
Sub-basin area
1 410,6km²
Upstream area
1 410,6km²
Discharge
7,48m³/s
Mean elev.
1 172m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 588.3 km²41.9% of basin
- 564.5 km²40.2% of basin
- 251.9 km²17.9% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Kaputa
IUCN VIGame Management Area
124.24 km² overlap
Mweru Wantipa
IUCN IINational Park
75.62 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
17 distinct species · 41 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°
22,4°C
Annual rain
1 184mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
154mm/an
PET
1 680mm
AET
965mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
163cm
Forest
88%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)