Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081391740

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

Pfafstetter: 12264031

Sub-basin area

230,9km²

Upstream area

14 031km²

Discharge

99,07m³/s

Mean elev.

1 192m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Lunga979 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Ndesha

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    122.36 km² overlap

  • East Lunga

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    5.25 km² overlap

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

Species present

2 distinct species · 3 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

3 obs · 3 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 1
1–0
1–0
1–0
< 1

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°

20,3°C

Annual rain

1 118mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,35

Runoff

215mm/an

PET

1 727mm

AET

899mm

Mean slope

1,3°

Water table

141cm

Forest

100%

Crops

4%

Urban

0%

Protected

55%

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