HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081396150
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
Sub-basin area
56,1km²
Upstream area
18 976,4km²
Discharge
132,09m³/s
Mean elev.
1 176m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lunga979 km²
- Bassin · #1081395730571 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 55.9 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
East Lunga
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
55.89 km² overlap
Lunga Luswishi
IUCN VIGame Management Area
51.26 km² overlap
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°
20,4°C
Annual rain
1 076mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
233mm/an
PET
1 728mm
AET
884mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
104cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)