Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081414770

Bassin de Zambezi

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 : Lukulu

Pfafstetter: 12293060

Sub-basin area

372,1km²

Upstream area

372,1km²

Discharge

1,55m³/s

Mean elev.

1 035m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Zambezi309 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

3 intersecting protected areas

  • Mbanga

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    28.98 km² overlap

  • Chombwe

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    0.77 km² overlap

  • Shomkamba

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    0.07 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

4 distinct species · 4 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

4 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 3
3–2
3–2
3–2
< 3

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

22,7°C

Annual rain

991mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,49

Runoff

121mm/an

PET

1 927mm

AET

836mm

Mean slope

0,1°

Water table

36cm

Forest

32%

Crops

5%

Urban

0%

Protected

8%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)