HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081398530
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
905,8km²
Upstream area
20 488,8km²
Discharge
141,92m³/s
Mean elev.
1 195m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lunga607 km²
- Bassin de Lunga56 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 902.4 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
East Lunga
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
602.83 km² overlap
Lunga Luswishi
IUCN VIGame Management Area
587.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 14 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°
20,3°C
Annual rain
1 067mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
230mm/an
PET
1 723mm
AET
878mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
123cm
Forest
100%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
67%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)