HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081378170
Bassin de Mulembo
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 : Chitambo, Lavushimanda
Sub-basin area
296,6km²
Upstream area
1 755,5km²
Discharge
12,16m³/s
Mean elev.
1 272m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mwimba236 km²
- Bassin de Mulembo42 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 226.2 km²76.6% of basin
- 69.2 km²23.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kafinda
IUCN VIGame Management Area
245.77 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
95 distinct species · 119 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 13 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Mulembo : 13 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 8 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 8.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
20,1°C
Annual rain
1 093mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
203mm/an
PET
1 613mm
AET
844mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
122cm
Forest
100%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
69%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)