HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081408050
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
Sub-basin area
633,3km²
Upstream area
92 056,5km²
Discharge
415,9m³/s
Mean elev.
564m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,0°C
Annual rain
884mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,52
Runoff
144mm/an
PET
1 836mm
AET
744mm
Mean slope
3,8°
Water table
217cm
Forest
57%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)