HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081397910
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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Lumbala-Nguimbo, Mitete, Zambezi
Sub-basin area
175,2km²
Upstream area
4 654,9km²
Discharge
13,43m³/s
Mean elev.
1 077m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lutembwe1186 km²
- Bassin de Lutembwe766 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 118.9 km²68.2% of basin
- 54.9 km²31.5% of basin
- Lumbala-NguimboMoxico · Angola0.6 km²0.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
West Zambezi
IUCN VIGame Management Area
78.21 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°
20,2°C
Annual rain
1 076mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
161mm/an
PET
1 920mm
AET
909mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
39cm
Forest
0%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)