Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081368270

Bassin de Luangwa

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 : Chama

Pfafstetter: 12249104

Sub-basin area

263,8km²

Upstream area

263,9km²

Discharge

1,14m³/s

Mean elev.

687m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Luangwa252 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

3 intersecting protected areas

  • Musalangu

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    243.60 km² overlap

  • Lumimba

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    19.20 km² overlap

  • Lundazi

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    10.25 km² overlap

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

Species present

0 distinct species · 0 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

0 obs · 0 cellules

Aucune observation géoréférencée précise (<10 km) dans ce territoire.

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.2° × 0.2° (~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°

23,2°C

Annual rain

902mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,49

Runoff

136mm/an

PET

1 769mm

AET

761mm

Mean slope

0,9°

Water table

111cm

Forest

31%

Crops

5%

Urban

0%

Protected

100%

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