Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081361730

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: 12249501

Sub-basin area

464,9km²

Upstream area

22 407,2km²

Discharge

131,25m³/s

Mean elev.

707m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Lundi1287 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Musalangu

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    463.10 km² overlap

  • Lundazi

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    48.08 km² overlap

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

Species present

9 distinct species · 13 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

13 obs · 5 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 5
5–4
4–4
2–3
< 2

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°

23,2°C

Annual rain

901mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,48

Runoff

128mm/an

PET

1 735mm

AET

760mm

Mean slope

1,3°

Water table

99cm

Forest

15%

Crops

5%

Urban

0%

Protected

100%

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