HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081317910
Bassin de Lufubu
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 : Mporokoso, Mpulungu, Nsama
Sub-basin area
497,6km²
Upstream area
497,6km²
Discharge
4,67m³/s
Mean elev.
1 305m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 407.4 km²82.2% of basin
- 87.5 km²17.7% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nsumbu
IUCN IINational Park
6.79 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 24 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°
21,6°C
Annual rain
1 248mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
293mm/an
PET
1 652mm
AET
958mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
147cm
Forest
92%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)