HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081410430
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
332,1km²
Upstream area
332,2km²
Discharge
1,35m³/s
Mean elev.
750m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 intersecting protected areas
West Petauke
IUCN VIGame Management Area
330.88 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
22,8°C
Annual rain
912mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,48
Runoff
127mm/an
PET
1 760mm
AET
769mm
Mean slope
7,3°
Water table
432cm
Forest
74%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
97%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)