Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081381150

Bassin de West Lunga

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 : Manyinga, Mwinilunga

Pfafstetter: 12296915

Sub-basin area

1 073,4km²

Upstream area

10 943,4km²

Discharge

97,22m³/s

Mean elev.

1 225m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de West Lunga587 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

4 intersecting protected areas

  • Chibwika Ntambu

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    624.08 km² overlap

  • Lukwakwa

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    277.63 km² overlap

  • West Lunga

    IUCN II

    National Park

    167.60 km² overlap

  • Ndembo

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    12.64 km² overlap

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

Species present

11 distinct species · 14 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

14 obs · 9 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 3
3–2
2–2
1–1
< 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°

20,5°C

Annual rain

1 240mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,31

Runoff

236mm/an

PET

1 789mm

AET

986mm

Mean slope

2,1°

Water table

225cm

Forest

100%

Crops

3%

Urban

0%

Protected

82%

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