Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081377120

Bassin de Luombwa

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 2 administrative regions across 2 countries : Chitambo, Sakania

Pfafstetter: 13297620

Sub-basin area

599,5km²

Upstream area

599,9km²

Discharge

5,07m³/s

Mean elev.

1 218m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Luombwa809 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Kafinda

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    252.87 km² overlap

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

Species present

2 distinct species · 3 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

3 obs · 3 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°

20,2°C

Annual rain

1 157mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,30

Runoff

267mm/an

PET

1 644mm

AET

876mm

Mean slope

0,7°

Water table

85cm

Forest

100%

Crops

6%

Urban

0%

Protected

35%

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