HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081401760
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 3 administrative regions : Luano, Nyimba, Serenje
Sub-basin area
303,8km²
Upstream area
303,9km²
Discharge
1,71m³/s
Mean elev.
900m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 266.9 km²88.2% of basin
- 35.3 km²11.7% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Chisomo
IUCN VIGame Management Area
255.86 km² overlap
West Petauke
IUCN VIGame Management Area
33.56 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
21,6°C
Annual rain
936mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
177mm/an
PET
1 715mm
AET
784mm
Mean slope
7,0°
Water table
424cm
Forest
99%
Crops
16%
Urban
0%
Protected
91%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)