HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081330260
Bassin de Kalungu
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 3 administrative regions : Chinsali, Isoka, Nakonde
Sub-basin area
219,4km²
Upstream area
3 531,6km²
Discharge
32,31m³/s
Mean elev.
1 245m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Chilunda1661 km²
- Bassin de Kalungu280 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 111.6 km²51.1% of basin
- 106.7 km²48.9% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 43 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°
21,9°C
Annual rain
1 040mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
239mm/an
PET
1 564mm
AET
826mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
78cm
Forest
11%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)