Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081400370

Bassin de Dongwe

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 : Lukulu, Mufumbwe

Pfafstetter: 12296460

Sub-basin area

480,5km²

Upstream area

480,5km²

Discharge

2,06m³/s

Mean elev.

1 174m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Dongwe819 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Chizera

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    478.72 km² overlap

  • Chibombo

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    471.50 km² overlap

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

Species present

1 distinct species · 91 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

91 obs · 9 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 34
34–33
12–33
6–11
< 6

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°

20,9°C

Annual rain

1 048mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,42

Runoff

135mm/an

PET

1 799mm

AET

884mm

Mean slope

0,8°

Water table

250cm

Forest

100%

Crops

2%

Urban

0%

Protected

99%

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