HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081391520
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 : Kasenengwa, Mambwe
Sub-basin area
531km²
Upstream area
4 222,6km²
Discharge
19,78m³/s
Mean elev.
675m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lupande2572 km²
- Bassin de Lusandwa451 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 522.7 km²98.8% of basin
- 6.3 km²1.2% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Lupande
IUCN VIGame Management Area
476.20 km² overlap
Katakoli East
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
23.76 km² overlap
Nkhanga
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
22.75 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 10 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°
23,7°C
Annual rain
918mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
134mm/an
PET
1 872mm
AET
775mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
127cm
Forest
41%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
57%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)