HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081382190
Bassin de Mwombezhi
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 : Kalumbila
Sub-basin area
185,9km²
Upstream area
9 005,7km²
Discharge
75,43m³/s
Mean elev.
1 169m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mwafwe696 km²
- Bassin de Mwombezhi478 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 185.2 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Musele Matebo
IUCN VIGame Management Area
185.18 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
20,5°C
Annual rain
1 185mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
261mm/an
PET
1 768mm
AET
946mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
120cm
Forest
100%
Crops
20%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)