HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081343690
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 4 administrative regions : Kambove, Kasenga, Kipushi, Lubudi
Sub-basin area
3 285,1km²
Upstream area
14 262,3km²
Discharge
84,32m³/s
Mean elev.
1 131m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,1°C
Annual rain
1 136mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
238mm/an
PET
1 761mm
AET
923mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
186cm
Forest
71%
Crops
13%
Urban
1%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)