HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081326450
Bassin de Lufira
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 : Mitwaba
Sub-basin area
988,2km²
Upstream area
33 263,7km²
Discharge
216,36m³/s
Mean elev.
997m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lufira911 km²
- Bassin de Lufira861 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 984.1 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Bassin de la Lufira
IUCN IIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
984.13 km² overlap
Kundelungu
IUCN IINational Park
502.77 km² overlap
Lubudi Sampwe
IUCN IVHunting Area
442.44 km² overlap
Upemba
IUCN IINational Park
5.26 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
76 distinct species · 141 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 14 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Lufira : 9 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 15 interactions GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 14.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
22,7°C
Annual rain
865mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
237mm/an
PET
1 767mm
AET
729mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
131cm
Forest
31%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
86%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)