HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081343790
Bassin de Lukashya
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 : Kasama, Mungwi, Shiwamg'andu
Sub-basin area
818,7km²
Upstream area
819km²
Discharge
8,47m³/s
Mean elev.
1 262m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 812.2 km²99.6% of basin
- 2.5 km²0.3% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nkole Mfumu
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
124.31 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
14 distinct species · 22 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°
20,7°C
Annual rain
1 250mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
326mm/an
PET
1 665mm
AET
906mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
140cm
Forest
86%
Crops
15%
Urban
1%
Protected
15%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)