HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081175300
Bassin de Lwekali
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 : Ikela, Lomela, Opala
Sub-basin area
496,3km²
Upstream area
496,8km²
Discharge
9,96m³/s
Mean elev.
481m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 482.7 km²97.7% of basin
- 6.8 km²1.4% of basin
- 4.7 km²0.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 12 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°
24,6°C
Annual rain
1 843mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
632mm/an
PET
1 699mm
AET
1 523mm
Mean slope
3,8°
Water table
126cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)