HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081146980
Bassin de Lomami
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 : Isangi, Opala
Sub-basin area
745,9km²
Upstream area
90 068,2km²
Discharge
1 803,9m³/s
Mean elev.
430m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lomami996 km²
- Bassin de Lomami907 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 505.0 km²68.0% of basin
- 237.6 km²32.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
24,8°C
Annual rain
1 915mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,12
Runoff
562mm/an
PET
1 694mm
AET
1 540mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
38cm
Forest
72%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)