HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081176590
Bassin de Utu
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
1 028,7km²
Upstream area
1 028,7km²
Discharge
32,59m³/s
Mean elev.
847m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1024.1 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Kahuzi-Biega National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
421.99 km² overlap
Kahuzi-Biega
IUCN IINational Park
412.42 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
22 distinct species · 26 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°
22,5°C
Annual rain
1 743mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
999mm/an
PET
1 650mm
AET
1 441mm
Mean slope
5,5°
Water table
217cm
Forest
95%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
40%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)