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HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081363080

Bassin · #1081363080

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

Pfafstetter: 13299104

Sub-basin area

178,9km²

Upstream area

178,9km²

Discharge

1,85m³/s

Mean elev.

1 168m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Luapula258 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Bangweulu

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    177.00 km² overlap

  • Bangweulu Swamps

    IUCN Not Reported

    Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)

    73.16 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 · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 3
3–2
3–2
3–2
< 3

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°

20,8°C

Annual rain

1 301mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,20

Runoff

325mm/an

PET

1 626mm

AET

902mm

Mean slope

0,0°

Water table

2cm

Forest

66%

Crops

2%

Urban

0%

Protected

79%

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