Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081407480

Bassin de Lukusashi

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 : Luano, Nyimba

Pfafstetter: 12242230

Sub-basin area

905,3km²

Upstream area

11 339,7km²

Discharge

72,9m³/s

Mean elev.

705m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Lukusashi1399 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • West Petauke

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    364.53 km² overlap

  • Luano

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    311.36 km² overlap

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

Species present

32 distinct species · 80 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

80 obs · 7 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 62
62–61
5–61
4–4
< 4

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°

22,8°C

Annual rain

906mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,49

Runoff

153mm/an

PET

1 779mm

AET

763mm

Mean slope

5,4°

Water table

311cm

Forest

37%

Crops

4%

Urban

0%

Protected

76%

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