HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081391820
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 2 administrative regions : Kasempa, Solwezi
Sub-basin area
177,1km²
Upstream area
3 339km²
Discharge
24,12m³/s
Mean elev.
1 191m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mushingashi247 km²
- Bassin de Mushingashi79 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 120.8 km²68.5% of basin
- 55.6 km²31.5% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
East Lunga
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
145.26 km² overlap
Lunga Luswishi
IUCN VIGame Management Area
116.17 km² overlap
Ndesha
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
31.14 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°
20,3°C
Annual rain
1 102mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
211mm/an
PET
1 723mm
AET
894mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
126cm
Forest
100%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)