HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081335870
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, Kasama, Mungwi
Sub-basin area
2 267,8km²
Upstream area
2 267,9km²
Discharge
20,4m³/s
Mean elev.
1 296m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2229.3 km²98.7% of basin
- 29.0 km²1.3% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Chitimukulu
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
32.03 km² overlap
Mongu
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
5.30 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
67 distinct species · 138 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 Kalungu : 15 espèces reliées par 12 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (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°
20,5°C
Annual rain
1 196mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,27
Runoff
298mm/an
PET
1 633mm
AET
885mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
124cm
Forest
83%
Crops
15%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)