Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081325780

Bassin de Luangwa

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 : Lunte District, Mporokoso

Pfafstetter: 13296093

Sub-basin area

658,5km²

Upstream area

1 684,2km²

Discharge

18,6m³/s

Mean elev.

1 464m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Luangwa317 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Mporokoso

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    55.05 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

51 distinct species · 91 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

91 obs · 7 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 56
56–55
14–55
2–13
< 2

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

20,4°C

Annual rain

1 320mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,18

Runoff

323mm/an

PET

1 604mm

AET

955mm

Mean slope

1,4°

Water table

146cm

Forest

96%

Crops

20%

Urban

0%

Protected

8%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)