HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081401520
Bassin de Mulembo
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 4 administrative regions : Luano, Mkushi, Nyimba, Serenje
Sub-basin area
741,6km²
Upstream area
1 907,7km²
Discharge
13,26m³/s
Mean elev.
1 236m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mulembo286 km²
- Bassin de Mulembo11 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 442.5 km²59.9% of basin
- 197.8 km²26.8% of basin
- 94.2 km²12.7% of basin
- 4.4 km²0.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
West Petauke
IUCN VIGame Management Area
5.22 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 9 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°
19,5°C
Annual rain
971mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
194mm/an
PET
1 599mm
AET
800mm
Mean slope
3,3°
Water table
257cm
Forest
100%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)