Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081352970

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

Pfafstetter: 12249700

Sub-basin area

1 072,7km²

Upstream area

12 893km²

Discharge

92,11m³/s

Mean elev.

786m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Luangwa438 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Musalangu

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    1068.45 km² overlap

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

Species present

7 distinct species · 14 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

14 obs · 6 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 7
7–6
3–6
1–2
< 1

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°

23,3°C

Annual rain

890mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,47

Runoff

171mm/an

PET

1 692mm

AET

750mm

Mean slope

1,3°

Water table

118cm

Forest

10%

Crops

2%

Urban

0%

Protected

100%

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