HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081412390
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
140,9km²
Upstream area
93 257,4km²
Discharge
423,16m³/s
Mean elev.
525m
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°
24,3°C
Annual rain
873mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
123mm/an
PET
1 850mm
AET
738mm
Mean slope
8,0°
Water table
495cm
Forest
95%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)