HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081363130
Bassin de Luweya
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 : Mzuzu City, SC Kampingo Sibande, TA Kabunduli
Sub-basin area
621,1km²
Upstream area
621,5km²
Discharge
3,14m³/s
Mean elev.
1 375m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 590.1 km²95.4% of basin
- 23.2 km²3.7% of basin
- 5.4 km²0.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
South Viphya
IUCN VIForest Reserve
363.32 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
747 distinct species · 1 520 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Luweya : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 40 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 6.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
18,7°C
Annual rain
1 129mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
174mm/an
PET
1 470mm
AET
878mm
Mean slope
7,9°
Water table
289cm
Forest
97%
Crops
3%
Urban
2%
Protected
60%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)