HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081380010
Bassin de Mwimba
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 : Chitambo
Sub-basin area
235,9km²
Upstream area
235,9km²
Discharge
1,64m³/s
Mean elev.
1 368m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 13 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
19,5°C
Annual rain
1 075mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
217mm/an
PET
1 588mm
AET
827mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
244cm
Forest
100%
Crops
21%
Urban
1%
Protected
20%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)