HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081393970
Bassin de Lwabufubu
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
396,6km²
Upstream area
396,8km²
Discharge
3,16m³/s
Mean elev.
1 173m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 286.7 km²72.6% of basin
- 108.4 km²27.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Machiya Fungulwe
IUCN VIGame Management Area
381.91 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 6 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 113mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
256mm/an
PET
1 725mm
AET
893mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
92cm
Forest
100%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
93%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)