HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081067300
Bassin de Lua
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 3 administrative regions : Gemena, Kungu, Libenge
Sub-basin area
901km²
Upstream area
21 032,9km²
Discharge
321,7m³/s
Mean elev.
364m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lua1154 km²
- Bassin de Lua42 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 658.5 km²73.4% of basin
- 203.8 km²22.7% of basin
- 34.8 km²3.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
1 729mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,00
Runoff
307mm/an
PET
1 721mm
AET
1 371mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
51cm
Forest
63%
Crops
0%
Urban
8%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)