HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081173940
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 1 administrative regions : Bokungu
Sub-basin area
158,3km²
Upstream area
28 874,8km²
Discharge
638,13m³/s
Mean elev.
385m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lomela1132 km²
- Bassin de Lomela465 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 157.6 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Salonga National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
124.22 km² overlap
Salonga
IUCN IINational Park
79.29 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°
24,7°C
Annual rain
1 981mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,14
Runoff
854mm/an
PET
1 702mm
AET
1 593mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
69cm
Forest
96%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
50%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)