Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081366720

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

13% lakePfafstetter: 13299101

Sub-basin area

151,8km²

Upstream area

63 620,9km²

Discharge

570,15m³/s

Mean elev.

1 164m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Luapula845 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Bangweulu

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    87.34 km² overlap

  • Bangweulu Swamps

    IUCN Not Reported

    Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)

    47.76 km² overlap

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

Species present

24 distinct species · 28 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

28 obs · 3 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 16
16–15
16–15
6–15
< 6

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 318mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,19

Runoff

347mm/an

PET

1 633mm

AET

912mm

Mean slope

0,0°

Water table

1cm

Forest

49%

Crops

9%

Urban

0%

Protected

92%

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