HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081325770
Bassin · #1081325770
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 : Kasenga, Mitwaba, Pweto
Sub-basin area
336,8km²
Upstream area
336,9km²
Discharge
2,94m³/s
Mean elev.
1 620m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 319.7 km²95.3% of basin
- 8.4 km²2.5% of basin
- 7.3 km²2.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bassin de la Lufira
IUCN IIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
7.28 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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 182mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
275mm/an
PET
1 572mm
AET
943mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
289cm
Forest
80%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)