Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081395740

Bassin de Lunga

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 1 administrative regions : Kasempa

Pfafstetter: 12264019

Sub-basin area

979km²

Upstream area

18 349,1km²

Discharge

127,39m³/s

Mean elev.

1 208m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Lunga56 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • East Lunga

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    619.13 km² overlap

  • Lunga Luswishi

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    555.90 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

2 distinct species · 8 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

8 obs · 5 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 3
3–2
2–2
1–1
< 1

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

20,2°C

Annual rain

1 098mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,36

Runoff

219mm/an

PET

1 720mm

AET

892mm

Mean slope

1,7°

Water table

142cm

Forest

100%

Crops

0%

Urban

0%

Protected

63%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)