HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081327850
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
Sub-basin area
1 654,6km²
Upstream area
5 530,8km²
Discharge
50,88m³/s
Mean elev.
1 347m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Luangwa1125 km²
- Bassin de Luangwa317 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1247.1 km²75.7% of basin
- 400.7 km²24.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
46 distinct species · 86 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°
21,1°C
Annual rain
1 275mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,22
Runoff
199mm/an
PET
1 628mm
AET
973mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
149cm
Forest
100%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)