Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081380300

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 2 administrative regions : Lumezi, Mpika

Pfafstetter: 12245050

Sub-basin area

0,7km²

Upstream area

53 825,4km²

Discharge

255,43m³/s

Mean elev.

549m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Luangwa340 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Munyamadzi

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    0.64 km² overlap

  • Lumimba

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    0.01 km² overlap

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

Species present

1 distinct species · 1 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

1 obs · 1 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°

24,2°C

Annual rain

857mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,54

Runoff

108mm/an

PET

1 873mm

AET

722mm

Mean slope

0,1°

Water table

4cm

Forest

0%

Crops

5%

Urban

0%

Protected

100%

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