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HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081362980

Bassin · #1081362980

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 : Lunga

29% lakePfafstetter: 13299105

Sub-basin area

225,7km²

Upstream area

61 078,2km²

Discharge

546,92m³/s

Mean elev.

1 168m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Luapula258 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Bangweulu

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    32.64 km² overlap

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

Species present

12 distinct species · 12 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

12 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 11
11–10
11–10
11–10
< 11

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°

20,9°C

Annual rain

1 340mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,18

Runoff

338mm/an

PET

1 624mm

AET

911mm

Mean slope

0,0°

Water table

2cm

Forest

27%

Crops

4%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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