HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081171230
Bassin de Lowa
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 : Walikale
Sub-basin area
301,4km²
Upstream area
17 017,8km²
Discharge
533,97m³/s
Mean elev.
643m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Biasi2586 km²
- Bassin de Lowa2026 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 300.0 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
30 distinct species · 44 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°
23,8°C
Annual rain
1 767mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,04
Runoff
1 035mm/an
PET
1 693mm
AET
1 494mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
113cm
Forest
92%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)