Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081373900

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

Pfafstetter: 12296931

Sub-basin area

170,8km²

Upstream area

8 600,9km²

Discharge

78,88m³/s

Mean elev.

1 268m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de West Lunga78 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Lunda

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    125.10 km² overlap

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

Species present

3 distinct species · 7 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

7 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 6
6–5
6–5
6–5
< 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°

20,3°C

Annual rain

1 301mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,26

Runoff

265mm/an

PET

1 767mm

AET

1 006mm

Mean slope

2,8°

Water table

251cm

Forest

100%

Crops

1%

Urban

0%

Protected

74%

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