HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081318190
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 2 administrative regions : Mpulungu, Nsama
Sub-basin area
327,6km²
Upstream area
6 378,8km²
Discharge
68,19m³/s
Mean elev.
1 230m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lufubu532 km²
- Bassin · #1081320420305 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 183.6 km²56.3% of basin
- 142.6 km²43.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kambashi
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
101.86 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 4 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°
22,1°C
Annual rain
1 227mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,27
Runoff
302mm/an
PET
1 674mm
AET
952mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
100cm
Forest
92%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
31%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)