Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081355690

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: 12249505

Sub-basin area

11,4km²

Upstream area

19 028,9km²

Discharge

122,96m³/s

Mean elev.

655m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Lupamadzi1861 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Musalangu

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    11.31 km² overlap

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

Species present

25 distinct species · 60 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

60 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 60
60–59
60–59
60–59
< 60

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°

23,7°C

Annual rain

883mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,49

Runoff

138mm/an

PET

1 734mm

AET

744mm

Mean slope

0,6°

Water table

25cm

Forest

0%

Crops

0%

Urban

0%

Protected

100%

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