HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081382330
Bassin de Luswishi
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 : Lufwanyama
Sub-basin area
59,3km²
Upstream area
1 746,3km²
Discharge
14,22m³/s
Mean elev.
1 264m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Luswishi275 km²
- Bassin de Luswishi157 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 59.1 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Lamba Headwaters
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
47.78 km² overlap
Forest Reserve Name Unknown (ZMB) No.41
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
4.47 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°
19,8°C
Annual rain
1 230mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
251mm/an
PET
1 731mm
AET
926mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
200cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
88%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)