HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081392400
Bassin de Luambala
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 : Lichinga, Majune, N'gauma
Sub-basin area
987,9km²
Upstream area
3 364,8km²
Discharge
41,05m³/s
Mean elev.
845m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Luambala253 km²
- Bassin de Luambala35 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 545.0 km²55.4% of basin
- 404.4 km²41.1% of basin
- 34.8 km²3.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
41 distinct species · 62 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°
22,4°C
Annual rain
1 228mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,22
Runoff
460mm/an
PET
1 569mm
AET
896mm
Mean slope
3,8°
Water table
238cm
Forest
88%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)