HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081396970
Bassin de Lutembwe
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 across 2 countries : Lumbala-Nguimbo, Zambezi
Sub-basin area
766,3km²
Upstream area
3 293,5km²
Discharge
8,46m³/s
Mean elev.
1 095m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081393490377 km²
- Bassin de Lutembwe248 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Lumbala-NguimboMoxico · Angola747.4 km²97.9% of basin
- 16.0 km²2.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
West Zambezi
IUCN VIGame Management Area
0.04 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°
19,8°C
Annual rain
1 092mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,42
Runoff
147mm/an
PET
1 891mm
AET
922mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
43cm
Forest
0%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)