Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081343040

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 2 administrative regions : Chama, Isoka

Pfafstetter: 12249971

Sub-basin area

289,8km²

Upstream area

5 508,4km²

Discharge

46,65m³/s

Mean elev.

799m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Nkanka3 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Musalangu

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    242.83 km² overlap

  • Pando Hills

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    8.43 km² overlap

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

Species present

2 distinct species · 7 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

7 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 6
6–5
6–5
6–5
< 6

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°

23,6°C

Annual rain

965mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,41

Runoff

221mm/an

PET

1 641mm

AET

812mm

Mean slope

1,0°

Water table

120cm

Forest

7%

Crops

2%

Urban

0%

Protected

9%

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