HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081325700
Bassin de Mwita
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 : Lunte District, Mporokoso, Mpulungu
Sub-basin area
187,9km²
Upstream area
188,1km²
Discharge
1,98m³/s
Mean elev.
1 517m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 111.6 km²59.6% of basin
- 40.0 km²21.4% of basin
- 35.5 km²19.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
11 distinct species · 20 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°
20,1°C
Annual rain
1 314mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,17
Runoff
330mm/an
PET
1 589mm
AET
945mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
148cm
Forest
97%
Crops
23%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)