HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081340600
Bassin de Luangwa
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 : Chama, Isoka, Mafinga
Sub-basin area
158,6km²
Upstream area
4 506,4km²
Discharge
38,97m³/s
Mean elev.
819m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Luangwa628 km²
- Bassin de Luangwa36 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 83.3 km²52.8% of basin
- 40.1 km²25.4% of basin
- 34.5 km²21.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Musalangu
IUCN VIGame Management Area
37.67 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
23,5°C
Annual rain
984mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
237mm/an
PET
1 627mm
AET
828mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
140cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)