HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081387550
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
44,6km²
Upstream area
3 378,8km²
Discharge
26,64m³/s
Mean elev.
1 180m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Luswishi938 km²
- Bassin de Luswishi285 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 44.4 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Lamba
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
33.83 km² overlap
Lunga Luswishi
IUCN VIGame Management Area
0.04 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°
20,3°C
Annual rain
1 146mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
278mm/an
PET
1 735mm
AET
907mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
103cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
76%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)