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
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
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)