Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081333800

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 2 administrative regions : Kasenga, Mitwaba

55% lakePfafstetter: 13294675

Sub-basin area

563,2km²

Upstream area

22 020,3km²

Discharge

130,61m³/s

Mean elev.

980m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

Drains into

Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

11 distinct species · 15 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

15 obs · 4 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 8
8–7
4–7
4–3
< 4

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

22,3°C

Annual rain

945mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,47

Runoff

339mm/an

PET

1 787mm

AET

796mm

Mean slope

2,0°

Water table

128cm

Forest

43%

Crops

8%

Urban

0%

Protected

77%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)