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
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
- Bassin de Muye621 km²
- Bassin de Lufira401 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 16.5 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Upemba
IUCN IINational Park
16.55 km² overlap
Bassin de la Lufira
IUCN IIWetland 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.
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)