HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081456570
Bassin de Rio Lugela
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 : Lugela, Mocuba
Sub-basin area
1 410,6km²
Upstream area
6 911,8km²
Discharge
127,54m³/s
Mean elev.
235m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Lugela479 km²
- Bassin de Rio Lugela50 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1021.3 km²72.6% of basin
- Lugela384.5 km²27.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
258 distinct species · 427 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 13 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 Rio Lugela : 10 espèces reliées par 9 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 11.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
24,6°C
Annual rain
1 395mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
401mm/an
PET
1 805mm
AET
1 120mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
158cm
Forest
97%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)