Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081400560

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: 12296450

Sub-basin area

818,8km²

Upstream area

17 253,3km²

Discharge

107,18m³/s

Mean elev.

1 155m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Dongwe166 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

3 intersecting protected areas

  • Chizera

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    87.60 km² overlap

  • Chibombo

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    38.19 km² overlap

  • Dongwe

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    18.12 km² overlap

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

Species present

1 distinct species · 49 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

49 obs · 11 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 15
11–14
4–10
2–3
< 2

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°

21,2°C

Annual rain

1 005mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,45

Runoff

116mm/an

PET

1 824mm

AET

849mm

Mean slope

0,9°

Water table

188cm

Forest

100%

Crops

1%

Urban

0%

Protected

7%

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