HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081345720
Bassin de Luongo
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 across 2 countries : Chipili, Kasenga, Mansa, Mwense
Sub-basin area
730,2km²
Upstream area
6 911,1km²
Discharge
46,79m³/s
Mean elev.
1 219m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lufubu1986 km²
- Bassin de Luongo926 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 420.4 km²57.8% of basin
- 168.2 km²23.1% of basin
- 138.7 km²19.1% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mubende
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
66.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
87 distinct species · 107 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 19 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Luongo : 17 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 16 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
20,8°C
Annual rain
1 204mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
201mm/an
PET
1 700mm
AET
925mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
230cm
Forest
81%
Crops
15%
Urban
1%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)