HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081323190
Bassin de Musombizi
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 3 administrative regions : Mbala, Mpulungu, Senga Hill
Sub-basin area
442km²
Upstream area
442km²
Discharge
4,64m³/s
Mean elev.
1 596m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 218.4 km²49.6% of basin
- 159.0 km²36.1% of basin
- 62.7 km²14.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Chambezi Flats
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
2.49 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
23 distinct species · 78 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°
19,1°C
Annual rain
1 222mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
334mm/an
PET
1 536mm
AET
891mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
210cm
Forest
89%
Crops
20%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)