HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081394820
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 2 administrative regions : Lichinga, N'gauma
Sub-basin area
28,8km²
Upstream area
1 779,4km²
Discharge
18,74m³/s
Mean elev.
861m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Luambala966 km²
- Bassin de Luambala784 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 19.3 km²67.4% of basin
- 9.4 km²32.6% 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°
22,2°C
Annual rain
1 180mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
376mm/an
PET
1 556mm
AET
884mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
235cm
Forest
100%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)