HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081380430
Bassin de Mwafwe
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 : Kalumbila, Solwezi
Sub-basin area
346,2km²
Upstream area
346,2km²
Discharge
2,78m³/s
Mean elev.
1 282m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 335.5 km²97.3% of basin
- 9.4 km²2.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 5 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°
19,8°C
Annual rain
1 228mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
253mm/an
PET
1 727mm
AET
937mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
119cm
Forest
100%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)