Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081428880

Bassin de Luangwa

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 across 2 countries : Luangwa, Zumbu

Pfafstetter: 12241003

Sub-basin area

56,1km²

Upstream area

148 764,3km²

Discharge

714,18m³/s

Mean elev.

370m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Luangwa275 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Rufunsa

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    42.57 km² overlap

  • Tchuma tchato

    IUCN VI

    Community Conservation Area

    11.90 km² overlap

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

Species present

8 distinct species · 8 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

8 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 8
8–7
8–7
8–7
< 8

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°

25,5°C

Annual rain

700mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,64

Runoff

65mm/an

PET

1 924mm

AET

591mm

Mean slope

2,0°

Water table

189cm

Forest

1%

Crops

4%

Urban

0%

Protected

51%

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