HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081351990
Bassin de Lufira
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 : Kambove
Sub-basin area
342,4km²
Upstream area
6 829km²
Discharge
39,18m³/s
Mean elev.
1 191m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lufira1469 km²
- Bassin de Lupoto1276 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 341.1 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lufira
IUCN Not ReportedBiosphere Reserve
282.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
107 distinct species · 164 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°
20,6°C
Annual rain
1 176mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
185mm/an
PET
1 743mm
AET
937mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
155cm
Forest
98%
Crops
8%
Urban
10%
Protected
83%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)