HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081390090
Bassin de Mushingashi
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 4 administrative regions : Kasempa, Lufwanyama, Mpongwe, Solwezi
Sub-basin area
1 483,3km²
Upstream area
1 483,3km²
Discharge
11,03m³/s
Mean elev.
1 226m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 934.7 km²63.3% of basin
- 453.2 km²30.7% of basin
- 73.5 km²5.0% of basin
- 16.3 km²1.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Lunga Luswishi
IUCN VIGame Management Area
629.92 km² overlap
East Lunga
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
79.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 22 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 153mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
239mm/an
PET
1 721mm
AET
906mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
134cm
Forest
99%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
37%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)