HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081366570
Bassin de Luapula
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 : Lunga, Samfya
Sub-basin area
197,1km²
Upstream area
18 273,3km²
Discharge
189,45m³/s
Mean elev.
1 166m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Musuba1229 km²
- Bassin de Luapula264 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 116.3 km²59.3% of basin
- 80.0 km²40.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kalasa Mukoso
IUCN VIGame Management Area
111.68 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
70 distinct species · 97 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 14 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 Luapula : 11 espèces reliées par 16 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 13.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
20,8°C
Annual rain
1 342mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,18
Runoff
362mm/an
PET
1 631mm
AET
920mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
1cm
Forest
36%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
19%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)