HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081403630
Bassin de Lunsemfwa
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 : Kapiri Mposhi, Luano
Sub-basin area
420,6km²
Upstream area
6 282,1km²
Discharge
56,47m³/s
Mean elev.
1 183m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081401850207 km²
- Bassin de Lunsemfwa21 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 272.6 km²65.0% of basin
- 146.5 km²35.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 19 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°
20,0°C
Annual rain
989mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
224mm/an
PET
1 651mm
AET
806mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
134cm
Forest
43%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)