Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081374670

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: 12296919

Sub-basin area

78,1km²

Upstream area

9 345km²

Discharge

84,94m³/s

Mean elev.

1 256m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de West Lunga147 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Lunda

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    23.37 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°

20,4°C

Annual rain

1 285mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,28

Runoff

254mm/an

PET

1 780mm

AET

1 004mm

Mean slope

3,1°

Water table

245cm

Forest

100%

Crops

5%

Urban

0%

Protected

30%

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