Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081390000

Bassin de Chipupushi

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 3 administrative regions : Kasempa, Lufwanyama, Solwezi

Pfafstetter: 12264025

Sub-basin area

804,8km²

Upstream area

1 353,1km²

Discharge

9,95m³/s

Mean elev.

1 221m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Mushingashi79 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Ndesha

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    80.05 km² overlap

  • East Lunga

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    4.38 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

1 distinct species · 12 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

12 obs · 3 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 8
8–7
8–7
3–7
< 3

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

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 163mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,33

Runoff

230mm/an

PET

1 726mm

AET

909mm

Mean slope

1,2°

Water table

135cm

Forest

96%

Crops

5%

Urban

0%

Protected

11%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)