HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081318010
Bassin de Lubaleshi
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 2 administrative regions : Mpulungu, Nsama
Sub-basin area
13,7km²
Upstream area
6 633,4km²
Discharge
70,69m³/s
Mean elev.
1 146m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lufubu328 km²
- Bassin de Lubaleshi241 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 8.4 km²61.5% of basin
- 5.3 km²38.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nsumbu
IUCN IINational Park
8.35 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
22,7°C
Annual rain
1 200mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
288mm/an
PET
1 700mm
AET
954mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
95cm
Forest
78%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
78%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)