HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081418680
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 3 administrative regions : Chisamba, Luano, Rufunsa
Sub-basin area
290km²
Upstream area
8 976km²
Discharge
36,14m³/s
Mean elev.
612m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Muchinda752 km²
- Bassin de Mulungushi427 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 260.5 km²90.1% of basin
- 27.8 km²9.6% of basin
- 0.7 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Luano
IUCN VIGame Management Area
288.95 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.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
23,4°C
Annual rain
783mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,57
Runoff
110mm/an
PET
1 818mm
AET
661mm
Mean slope
4,4°
Water table
289cm
Forest
44%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)