Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081404220

Bassin de Luangwa

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 1 administrative regions : Nyimba

Pfafstetter: 12243037

Sub-basin area

193,3km²

Upstream area

91 103,2km²

Discharge

411,56m³/s

Mean elev.

603m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Luangwa633 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • West Petauke

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    112.89 km² overlap

  • West Mvuvye

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    57.27 km² overlap

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

Species present

1 distinct species · 2 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

2 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 2
2–1
2–1
2–1
< 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°

23,8°C

Annual rain

888mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,51

Runoff

153mm/an

PET

1 825mm

AET

747mm

Mean slope

5,2°

Water table

264cm

Forest

73%

Crops

7%

Urban

0%

Protected

30%

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