HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081349260
Bassin de Luangwa
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 : Chama
Sub-basin area
439,7km²
Upstream area
9 261,7km²
Discharge
71,14m³/s
Mean elev.
762m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Luangwa908 km²
- Bassin de Musi841 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Musalangu
IUCN VIGame Management Area
437.90 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
23,5°C
Annual rain
894mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
192mm/an
PET
1 681mm
AET
754mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
151cm
Forest
3%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)