HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081352980
Bassin de Luwumbu
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
383,7km²
Upstream area
4 476,4km²
Discharge
25,08m³/s
Mean elev.
704m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Luwumbu508 km²
- Bassin · #1081351480420 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Musalangu
IUCN VIGame Management Area
382.21 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 274 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°
23,6°C
Annual rain
864mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
160mm/an
PET
1 704mm
AET
729mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
28cm
Forest
8%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)