HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081176330
Bassin de Lwalaba
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 2 administrative regions : Punia, Ubundu
Sub-basin area
979,3km²
Upstream area
879 333,7km²
Discharge
4 218,59m³/s
Mean elev.
487m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lwalaba461 km²
- Bassin de Ulindi374 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 878.3 km²90.1% of basin
- 96.6 km²9.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
23 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°
24,8°C
Annual rain
1 872mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,10
Runoff
920mm/an
PET
1 675mm
AET
1 492mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
36cm
Forest
83%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)