HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081354460
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
437,8km²
Upstream area
17 807km²
Discharge
118,5m³/s
Mean elev.
823m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Luangwa1073 km²
- Bassin de Luwumbu384 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Musalangu
IUCN VIGame Management Area
436.10 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 5 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°
22,9°C
Annual rain
896mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
154mm/an
PET
1 694mm
AET
753mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
119cm
Forest
32%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)