HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081320530
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 1 administrative regions : Mpulungu
Sub-basin area
521,1km²
Upstream area
4 983,1km²
Discharge
53,19m³/s
Mean elev.
1 323m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mululwe1862 km²
- Bassin · #108131984029 km²
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 16 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 237mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
319mm/an
PET
1 642mm
AET
937mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
131cm
Forest
65%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)