HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081328920
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
861,2km²
Upstream area
26 208,2km²
Discharge
165,88m³/s
Mean elev.
968m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lufira1353 km²
- Bassin de Lufira417 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 857.7 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Bassin de la Lufira
IUCN IIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
857.70 km² overlap
Kundelungu
IUCN IINational Park
696.67 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
17 distinct species · 25 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°
22,6°C
Annual rain
879mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
333mm/an
PET
1 787mm
AET
740mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
101cm
Forest
27%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
84%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)