HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081325890
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 1 administrative regions : Lunte District
Sub-basin area
59,2km²
Upstream area
613,5km²
Discharge
6,83m³/s
Mean elev.
1 491m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Luangwa415 km²
- Bassin · #1081326050140 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 59.0 km²100.0% of basin
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°
20,1°C
Annual rain
1 336mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,16
Runoff
337mm/an
PET
1 596mm
AET
950mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
138cm
Forest
100%
Crops
19%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)