HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081321420
Bassin · #1081321420
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 : Mitwaba
Sub-basin area
201,2km²
Upstream area
2 021,8km²
Discharge
16,06m³/s
Mean elev.
1 015m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081319940949 km²
- Bassin · #1081319930871 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 200.3 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bassin de la Lufira
IUCN IIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
200.34 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 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°
22,8°C
Annual rain
917mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
224mm/an
PET
1 735mm
AET
774mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
154cm
Forest
36%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)