HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081355120
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
48,8km²
Upstream area
18 518,3km²
Discharge
120,81m³/s
Mean elev.
666m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kampemba662 km²
- Bassin de Luangwa438 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Musalangu
IUCN VIGame Management Area
48.59 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 2 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°
23,7°C
Annual rain
876mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
141mm/an
PET
1 726mm
AET
739mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
30cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)