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
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
- Bassin de Lowa301 km²
- Bassin de Oso282 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1156.5 km²56.8% of basin
- 724.0 km²35.6% of basin
- 153.8 km²7.6% of basin
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.
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)