HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081415600
Bassin de Luambimba
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 2 administrative regions : Kalabo, Mitete
Sub-basin area
215,4km²
Upstream area
5 170,9km²
Discharge
20,22m³/s
Mean elev.
1 027m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Luambimba655 km²
- Bassin de Luambimba340 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 210.0 km²97.8% of basin
- 4.7 km²2.2% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
West Zambezi
IUCN VIGame Management Area
188.01 km² overlap
Liuwa Plain
IUCN IINational Park
26.66 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 7 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°
22,5°C
Annual rain
1 013mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,48
Runoff
137mm/an
PET
1 940mm
AET
856mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
7cm
Forest
5%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
85%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)