HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081173930
Bassin de Lomela
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 3 administrative regions : Bokungu, Lomela, Monkoto
Sub-basin area
955km²
Upstream area
955,1km²
Discharge
25,84m³/s
Mean elev.
431m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 829.4 km²87.2% of basin
- 118.2 km²12.4% of basin
- 3.2 km²0.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Salonga National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
950.78 km² overlap
Salonga
IUCN IINational Park
950.71 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
24,5°C
Annual rain
1 973mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,14
Runoff
851mm/an
PET
1 690mm
AET
1 585mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
124cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)