Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081463290

Bassin de Luengwe

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 : Kariba

Pfafstetter: 12276016

Sub-basin area

408,1km²

Upstream area

408,3km²

Discharge

0,81m³/s

Mean elev.

662m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Sengwa River170 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Negande

    IUCN Not Reported

    Wildlife Management Area

    401.44 km² overlap

  • Nabiri A

    IUCN Not Reported

    Wildlife Management Area

    5.35 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 · 3 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 5
5–4
5–4
2–4
< 2

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°

23,8°C

Annual rain

722mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,60

Runoff

63mm/an

PET

1 808mm

AET

609mm

Mean slope

3,5°

Water table

412cm

Forest

4%

Crops

1%

Urban

0%

Protected

100%

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