HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081376870
Bassin de Luangwa
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 3 administrative regions : Chama, Lumezi, Mpika
Sub-basin area
2 724,8km²
Upstream area
41 590,8km²
Discharge
204,91m³/s
Mean elev.
646m
Administrative coverage
Species present
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°
23,5°C
Annual rain
893mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,50
Runoff
138mm/an
PET
1 801mm
AET
753mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
72cm
Forest
8%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)