HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081320380
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 4 administrative regions : Lunte District, Mporokoso, Mpulungu, Nsama
Sub-basin area
531,5km²
Upstream area
5 746,3km²
Discharge
61,4m³/s
Mean elev.
1 326m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lufubu521 km²
- Bassin de Lufubu232 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 431.6 km²81.5% of basin
- 85.1 km²16.1% of basin
- 7.9 km²1.5% of basin
- 4.8 km²0.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kambashi
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
45.22 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 11 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°
21,4°C
Annual rain
1 252mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
317mm/an
PET
1 643mm
AET
946mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
174cm
Forest
75%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)