Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081174230

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 3 administrative regions : Lubutu, Punia, Walikale

Pfafstetter: 13279450

Sub-basin area

2 043,5km²

Upstream area

35 650,3km²

Discharge

1 052,58m³/s

Mean elev.

676m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

Drains into

Receives from 2 basins

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

17 distinct species · 23 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

23 obs · 5 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 11
11–10
5–10
3–4
< 3

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

23,6°C

Annual rain

1 893mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,12

Runoff

1 100mm/an

PET

1 661mm

AET

1 530mm

Mean slope

5,3°

Water table

211cm

Forest

98%

Crops

0%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)