HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081371680
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
405,3km²
Upstream area
405,3km²
Discharge
3,58m³/s
Mean elev.
1 371m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 403.7 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lunda
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
403.71 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 18 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
19,8°C
Annual rain
1 336mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
278mm/an
PET
1 727mm
AET
1 004mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
233cm
Forest
100%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)