HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081144790
Bassin de Lwalaba
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 : Ubundu
Sub-basin area
207,8km²
Upstream area
951 895,1km²
Discharge
6 398,77m³/s
Mean elev.
447m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10811473901290 km²
- Bassin de Lwalaba393 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 206.8 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 10 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°
25,0°C
Annual rain
1 812mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
753mm/an
PET
1 674mm
AET
1 482mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
57cm
Forest
75%
Crops
0%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)