HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081348000
Bassin de Luapula
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 : Kipushi
Sub-basin area
0,2km²
Upstream area
151 058km²
Discharge
1 208,03m³/s
Mean elev.
1 017m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lufurizi1181 km²
- Bassin de Kasenga393 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 0.2 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 10 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°
21,6°C
Annual rain
1 114mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
142mm/an
PET
1 772mm
AET
910mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
0cm
Forest
100%
Crops
19%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)