Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081367280

Bassin de Lwela

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 : Milengi

Pfafstetter: 13297384

Sub-basin area

510,1km²

Upstream area

510,1km²

Discharge

4,94m³/s

Mean elev.

1 140m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Lwela20 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Mansa

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    507.40 km² overlap

  • Lunuka

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    0.09 km² overlap

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

Species present

1 distinct species · 1 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

1 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 1
1–0
1–0
1–0
< 1

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°

20,6°C

Annual rain

1 238mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,27

Runoff

305mm/an

PET

1 701mm

AET

914mm

Mean slope

0,7°

Water table

74cm

Forest

100%

Crops

6%

Urban

0%

Protected

97%

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