National Park · zmb
South Luangwa
- Area
- 8 658 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1971
Overview
- Designation
- National Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1971
- Managing authority
- Department of National Parks and Wildlife
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
933 distinct species · 61 769 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 20 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 South Luangwa : 16 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 19 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology34 basins · 2 lakes · 25 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
1 121,9km
Lake surface here
0,45km²
Basins crossed
34
Max stream order
6
Max drainage
84 565km²
Discharge in basins
2 837,9m³/s
Mean precip.
883mm/an
Mean T°
23,6°C
Moisture idx
-0,52
Mean runoff
117mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
677m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Luwisub-area1 151,7 km²overlap1146.88 km²13%
- Bassin de Mwambasub-area1 038,7 km²overlap1034.77 km²12%
- Bassin de Kapambasub-area1 559,1 km²overlap982.39 km²11%
- Bassin de Luangwasub-area2 379 km²overlap875.89 km²10%
- Bassin de Mupamadzisub-area867,4 km²overlap706.59 km²8%
- Bassin de Luangwasub-area1 136,1 km²overlap695.91 km²8%
- Bassin de Lusiwasisub-area887,2 km²overlap605.82 km²7%
- Bassin de Luangwasub-area297,7 km²overlap296.02 km²3%
- Bassin de Luangwasub-area285,5 km²overlap275.98 km²3%
25 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de Lusiwasisub-area406,9 km²overlap272.27 km²3%
- Bassin de Luangwasub-area248,4 km²overlap247.48 km²3%
- Bassin de Luangwasub-area287,9 km²overlap209.29 km²2%
- Basin #92980sub-area177,5 km²overlap167.77 km²2%
- Bassin de Luangwasub-area155,7 km²overlap155.08 km²2%
- Bassin de Lusiwasisub-area126,9 km²overlap126.40 km²1%
- Bassin de Luangwasub-area340,3 km²overlap113.63 km²1%
- Basin #93130sub-area140,2 km²overlap107.48 km²1%
- Bassin de Kauluzisub-area232,1 km²overlap98.14 km²1%
- Bassin de Mupamadzisub-area172,5 km²overlap97.68 km²1%
- Bassin de Lusiwasisub-area89,3 km²overlap88.92 km²1%
- Bassin de Munyamadzisub-area263,2 km²overlap83.20 km²1%
- Bassin de Luangwasub-area69 km²overlap55.93 km²1%
- Bassin de Kauluzisub-area241,6 km²overlap53.00 km²1%
- Bassin de Mupamadzisub-area153,9 km²overlap50.27 km²1%
- Bassin de Mutinondosub-area1 524,4 km²overlap46.35 km²1%
- Bassin de Lusangazisub-area1 308,7 km²overlap43.95 km²1%
- Bassin de Luangwasub-area15,2 km²overlap10.03 km²0%
- Bassin de Kangwasub-area846,7 km²overlap6.19 km²0%
- Bassin de Luangwasub-area3,3 km²overlap1.82 km²0%
- Bassin de Luangwasub-area1,3 km²overlap1.33 km²0%
- Bassin de Lukuzyesub-area2 447,2 km²overlap1.19 km²0%
- Bassin de Chibobosub-area390,1 km²overlap0.40 km²0%
- Bassin de Lupandesub-area80,4 km²overlap0.16 km²0%
- Bassin de Mwangazisub-area644,8 km²overlap0.04 km²0%
Lakes (2, top by area)
Rivers / streams (25, ord ≥ 4)
- Luangwaord 7len here423.15 km18%total2313 km
- Kapambaord 3len here172.76 km63%total274 km
- Mupamadziord 4len here131.94 km37%total353 km
- Lusiwasiord 5len here106.92 km41%total261 km
- Luwiord 4len here82.03 km100%total82 km
- Mushilashiord 2len here63.40 km100%total64 km
- Kateteord 3len here26.58 km23%total114 km
- Chiwulaord 2len here24.62 km100%total25 km
- Kauluziord 3len here12.18 km19%total63 km
- Lusangaziord 6len here11.79 km6%total212 km
- Luandaord 2len here11.66 km100%total12 km
- Mwambaord 3len here11.24 km100%total11 km
13 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Masaukaord 5len here8.60 km84%total10 km
- Kangalaord 2len here8.45 km22%total39 km
- Munyamadziord 5len here6.61 km2%total312 km
- Chicheleord 2len here5.93 km100%total6 km
- Mfushiord 1len here3.85 km83%total5 km
- Lukusuziord 5len here3.68 km1%total351 km
- Myaweord 3len here2.33 km9%total26 km
- Lukuzyeord 4len here1.88 km1%total264 km
- Nsangaord 6len here1.20 km32%total4 km
- Mutinondoord 3len here0.65 km0%total163 km
- Msandileord 5len here0.30 km0%total186 km
- Mpupushiord 2len here0.17 km1%total13 km
- Mtipwaziord 2len here≈ tangenttotal11 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- -13.05002, 31.54260
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.