HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081334420
Bassin · #1081334420
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
Sub-basin area
852km²
Upstream area
852,1km²
Discharge
6,73m³/s
Mean elev.
1 522m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 847.9 km²99.9% of basin
- 0.7 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bassin de la Lufira
IUCN IIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
0.70 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
187 distinct species · 339 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°
19,8°C
Annual rain
1 178mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,27
Runoff
258mm/an
PET
1 620mm
AET
931mm
Mean slope
3,4°
Water table
287cm
Forest
71%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)