HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081155660
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 : Opala, Ubundu
Sub-basin area
373,2km²
Upstream area
85 518,8km²
Discharge
1 714,41m³/s
Mean elev.
434m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lomami5810 km²
- Bassin de Lulanga2550 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 371.2 km²99.9% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
31 distinct species · 32 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°
24,9°C
Annual rain
1 887mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,09
Runoff
602mm/an
PET
1 712mm
AET
1 536mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
36cm
Forest
98%
Crops
0%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)