HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081418470
Bassin de Mulungushi
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
52,7km²
Upstream area
22 332,1km²
Discharge
132,27m³/s
Mean elev.
524m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lunsemfwa756 km²
- Bassin de Mulungushi290 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 31.0 km²59.0% of basin
- 21.5 km²41.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Luano
IUCN VIGame Management Area
52.48 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
23,9°C
Annual rain
778mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
108mm/an
PET
1 845mm
AET
657mm
Mean slope
3,4°
Water table
294cm
Forest
46%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)