HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081328270
Bassin de Luchinde
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 4 administrative regions across 2 countries : Momba, Mungwi, Nakonde, Tunduma
Sub-basin area
1 960,9km²
Upstream area
1 961,1km²
Discharge
23,79m³/s
Mean elev.
1 339m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1921.3 km²98.4% of basin
- 25.7 km²1.3% of basin
- TundumaSongwe · Tanzania5.9 km²0.3% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
50 distinct species · 119 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 16 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 Luchinde : 14 espèces reliées par 12 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
21,8°C
Annual rain
972mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
347mm/an
PET
1 598mm
AET
811mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
102cm
Forest
19%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)