HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081385510
Bassin de Lukusuzi
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 : Chipangali, Lumezi
Sub-basin area
276km²
Upstream area
806,3km²
Discharge
3,46m³/s
Mean elev.
1 056m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lukusuzi300 km²
- Bassin de Mpingozi231 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 274.8 km²100.0% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lukusuzi
IUCN IINational Park
6.39 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 11 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°
21,6°C
Annual rain
870mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
133mm/an
PET
1 657mm
AET
735mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
210cm
Forest
97%
Crops
30%
Urban
0%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)