HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081176520
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 1 administrative regions : Walikale
Sub-basin area
17,5km²
Upstream area
11 075,3km²
Discharge
338,34m³/s
Mean elev.
653m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Luka3964 km²
- Bassin de Lowa266 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 17.4 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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°
23,7°C
Annual rain
1 628mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,05
Runoff
987mm/an
PET
1 715mm
AET
1 378mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
98cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)