HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081387160
Bassin de Lupande
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 : Lavushimanda, Mambwe
Sub-basin area
80,4km²
Upstream area
10 478km²
Discharge
46,17m³/s
Mean elev.
539m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081388390336 km²
- Bassin de Lupande1 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 80.0 km²99.9% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Lupande
IUCN VIGame Management Area
79.96 km² overlap
South Luangwa
IUCN IINational Park
0.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
459 distinct species · 4 378 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Lupande : 21 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 20 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 7.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,4°C
Annual rain
832mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,57
Runoff
108mm/an
PET
1 945mm
AET
702mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
5cm
Forest
17%
Crops
12%
Urban
1%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)