HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081336500
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 : Kasenga
Sub-basin area
427,4km²
Upstream area
20 540,1km²
Discharge
120,01m³/s
Mean elev.
890m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lofoyi1532 km²
- Bassin de Lufira1272 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 425.7 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Bassin de la Lufira
IUCN IIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
390.79 km² overlap
Kundelungu
IUCN IINational Park
390.78 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
22 distinct species · 38 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
958mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
340mm/an
PET
1 817mm
AET
809mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
16cm
Forest
16%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
78%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)