Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081359710

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 2 administrative regions : Chama, Chasefu

Pfafstetter: 12249502

Sub-basin area

488,5km²

Upstream area

488,5km²

Discharge

1,8m³/s

Mean elev.

939m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Luangwa465 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Musalangu

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    454.10 km² overlap

  • Lundazi

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    376.38 km² overlap

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

Species present

4 distinct species · 7 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

7 obs · 3 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 5
5–4
5–4
1–4
< 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°

22,0°C

Annual rain

880mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,47

Runoff

122mm/an

PET

1 672mm

AET

742mm

Mean slope

2,6°

Water table

197cm

Forest

32%

Crops

9%

Urban

1%

Protected

98%

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