HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081371670
Bassin de West Lunga
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 : Mwinilunga
Sub-basin area
45,4km²
Upstream area
8 025km²
Discharge
73,87m³/s
Mean elev.
1 258m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Chilonga595 km²
- Bassin de West Lunga280 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 45.2 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lunda
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
22.58 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.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
20,3°C
Annual rain
1 311mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,26
Runoff
270mm/an
PET
1 767mm
AET
1 011mm
Mean slope
3,2°
Water table
260cm
Forest
100%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
50%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)