Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081317560

Bassin de Lufira

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 : Mitwaba

Pfafstetter: 13294615

Sub-basin area

16,6km²

Upstream area

49 349,3km²

Discharge

313,72m³/s

Mean elev.

687m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

Drains into

Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Upemba

    IUCN II

    National Park

    16.55 km² overlap

  • Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)

    16.55 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

10 distinct species · 17 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

17 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 17
17–16
17–16
17–16
< 17

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

24,3°C

Annual rain

874mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,52

Runoff

152mm/an

PET

1 831mm

AET

738mm

Mean slope

3,3°

Water table

186cm

Forest

37%

Crops

14%

Urban

0%

Protected

100%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)