HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081421520
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
1 191,9km²
Upstream area
8 117,2km²
Discharge
29,35m³/s
Mean elev.
1 029m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lwandilu1754 km²
- Bassin de Luambimba215 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1109.5 km²93.4% of basin
- 78.1 km²6.6% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
West Zambezi
IUCN VIGame Management Area
602.12 km² overlap
Liuwa Plain
IUCN IINational Park
585.49 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
311 distinct species · 2 090 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 18 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Luambimba : 14 espèces reliées par 21 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 11.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
22,4°C
Annual rain
1 041mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,46
Runoff
94mm/an
PET
1 918mm
AET
879mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
7cm
Forest
0%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
94%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)