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
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
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)