Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081346820

Bassin de Luwuwushi

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, Mafinga

Pfafstetter: 12249606

Sub-basin area

331,1km²

Upstream area

331,1km²

Discharge

2,28m³/s

Mean elev.

1 368m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Luwumbu356 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Musalangu

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    1.91 km² overlap

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

Species present

14 distinct species · 24 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

24 obs · 3 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 9
9–8
9–8
8–8
< 8

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°

20,3°C

Annual rain

961mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,37

Runoff

215mm/an

PET

1 518mm

AET

781mm

Mean slope

6,3°

Water table

363cm

Forest

81%

Crops

31%

Urban

0%

Protected

66%

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