HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081394380
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
34,9km²
Upstream area
2 124,1km²
Discharge
23,48m³/s
Mean elev.
837m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Luambala310 km²
- Bassin de Luambala29 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 21.2 km²61.0% of basin
- 8.5 km²24.6% of basin
- 5.0 km²14.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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 193mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
400mm/an
PET
1 564mm
AET
887mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
184cm
Forest
100%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)