HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081392960
Bassin de Musakashi
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 : Lufwanyama, Mpongwe
Sub-basin area
299,6km²
Upstream area
3 010,3km²
Discharge
23,99m³/s
Mean elev.
1 163m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lufwanyama879 km²
- Bassin · #1081390140385 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 298.1 km²99.9% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Machiya Fungulwe
IUCN VIGame Management Area
168.52 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
31 distinct species · 33 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°
20,5°C
Annual rain
1 131mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
268mm/an
PET
1 733mm
AET
901mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
105cm
Forest
100%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
43%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)