HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081416910
Bassin de Lunsemfwa
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 : Luano, Rufunsa
Sub-basin area
1 191,1km²
Upstream area
25 352km²
Discharge
141,84m³/s
Mean elev.
591m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10814184801829 km²
- Bassin de Mulungushi53 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 968.5 km²81.6% of basin
- 218.3 km²18.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Luano
IUCN VIGame Management Area
1170.58 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 6 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°
23,5°C
Annual rain
805mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
108mm/an
PET
1 820mm
AET
679mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
242cm
Forest
38%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
98%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)