HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081389810
Bassin de Lunga
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 : Kasempa, Solwezi
Sub-basin area
249,6km²
Upstream area
12 088,3km²
Discharge
86,64m³/s
Mean elev.
1 213m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lunga244 km²
- Bassin de Lunga175 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 135.2 km²54.4% of basin
- 113.4 km²45.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ndesha
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
124.46 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
20,1°C
Annual rain
1 144mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
218mm/an
PET
1 726mm
AET
906mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
124cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
50%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)