Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081425640

Bassin de Lwansanda

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 1 administrative regions : Itezhi-tezhi

Pfafstetter: 12261965

Sub-basin area

171,3km²

Upstream area

1 695,1km²

Discharge

4,14m³/s

Mean elev.

1 142m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Lwansanda897 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Kafue

    IUCN II

    National Park

    170.72 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

4 distinct species · 5 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

5 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 5
5–4
5–4
5–4
< 5

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

20,7°C

Annual rain

873mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,51

Runoff

82mm/an

PET

1 767mm

AET

738mm

Mean slope

0,5°

Water table

134cm

Forest

51%

Crops

6%

Urban

0%

Protected

100%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)