HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081343700
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
451,5km²
Upstream area
3 046,4km²
Discharge
18,99m³/s
Mean elev.
1 100m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081346590254 km²
- Bassin · #108134671065 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 449.7 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Bassin de la Lufira
IUCN IIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
449.71 km² overlap
Kundelungu
IUCN IINational Park
361.34 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
26 distinct species · 85 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°
21,4°C
Annual rain
1 106mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
220mm/an
PET
1 766mm
AET
909mm
Mean slope
3,9°
Water table
243cm
Forest
29%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
82%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)