HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081325680
Bassin de Lufukwe
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 : Mitwaba, Pweto
Sub-basin area
381,5km²
Upstream area
381,5km²
Discharge
3,02m³/s
Mean elev.
1 650m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 379.9 km²100.0% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bassin de la Lufira
IUCN IIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
0.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
12 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°
19,6°C
Annual rain
1 200mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
250mm/an
PET
1 549mm
AET
954mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
274cm
Forest
29%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)