HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081426560
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
Sub-basin area
349,1km²
Upstream area
349,1km²
Discharge
0,8m³/s
Mean elev.
1 161m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 347.9 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kafue
IUCN IINational Park
347.91 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
12 distinct species · 30 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°
20,6°C
Annual rain
868mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
65mm/an
PET
1 763mm
AET
732mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
146cm
Forest
71%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)