Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081375310

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: 12296917

Sub-basin area

147,1km²

Upstream area

9 701,1km²

Discharge

87,78m³/s

Mean elev.

1 270m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de West Lunga1073 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Lunda

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    107.69 km² overlap

  • Chibwika Ntambu

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    35.64 km² overlap

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

Species present

3 distinct species · 6 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

6 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 5
5–4
5–4
5–4
< 5

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 286mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,27

Runoff

258mm/an

PET

1 769mm

AET

1 000mm

Mean slope

2,4°

Water table

213cm

Forest

100%

Crops

1%

Urban

0%

Protected

73%

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