HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081410440
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
526,9km²
Upstream area
92 784,2km²
Discharge
419,83m³/s
Mean elev.
562m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Luangwa633 km²
- Bassin de Luangwa201 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
West Petauke
IUCN VIGame Management Area
232.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 14 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°
24,0°C
Annual rain
885mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,52
Runoff
132mm/an
PET
1 835mm
AET
746mm
Mean slope
3,3°
Water table
251cm
Forest
65%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
29%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)