HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081317860
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
401,3km²
Upstream area
48 711,7km²
Discharge
310,14m³/s
Mean elev.
1 049m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lufira1713 km²
- Bassin · #1081319920594 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 399.6 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Upemba
IUCN IINational Park
399.62 km² overlap
Bassin de la Lufira
IUCN IIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
399.62 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
308 distinct species · 1 793 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 10 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Lufira : 10 espèces reliées par 7 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 15.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
22,5°C
Annual rain
971mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
156mm/an
PET
1 727mm
AET
818mm
Mean slope
7,3°
Water table
442cm
Forest
83%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)