HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081102770
Bassin de Aruwimi
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 : Bafwasende, Poko
Sub-basin area
2 543,5km²
Upstream area
85 969,7km²
Discharge
1 040,37m³/s
Mean elev.
557m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Nepoko1436 km²
- Bassin de Ituri459 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2359.8 km²93.2% of basin
- 172.4 km²6.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 17 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°
24,7°C
Annual rain
1 938mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,12
Runoff
574mm/an
PET
1 709mm
AET
1 504mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
95cm
Forest
94%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)