HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081394920
Bassin de Lusandwa
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 : Mambwe, Petauke
Sub-basin area
450,5km²
Upstream area
1 120km²
Discharge
5,12m³/s
Mean elev.
764m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lusandwa342 km²
- Bassin · #1081397940328 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 374.2 km²83.4% of basin
- 74.6 km²16.6% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 11 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°
23,3°C
Annual rain
937mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
141mm/an
PET
1 821mm
AET
791mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
248cm
Forest
46%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
20%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)