Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081359110

Bassin de Lufira

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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Kambove, Mushindano, Solwezi

Pfafstetter: 13294698

Sub-basin area

1 483,4km²

Upstream area

1 483,4km²

Discharge

9,35m³/s

Mean elev.

1 296m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Lufira1469 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Kafue H/waters

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    14.57 km² overlap

  • Chamato

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    7.75 km² overlap

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

Species present

3 distinct species · 5 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

5 obs · 4 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 2
2–1
1–1
1–0
< 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°

19,8°C

Annual rain

1 256mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,27

Runoff

203mm/an

PET

1 720mm

AET

942mm

Mean slope

1,9°

Water table

150cm

Forest

100%

Crops

3%

Urban

0%

Protected

2%

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