HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081177430
Bassin de Lomela
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 : Bokungu, Ikela, Lomela
Sub-basin area
2 532,6km²
Upstream area
22 331,5km²
Discharge
465,24m³/s
Mean elev.
421m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lomela937 km²
- Bassin de Lomela869 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1371.2 km²54.4% of basin
- 943.8 km²37.4% of basin
- 206.4 km²8.2% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Salonga
IUCN IINational Park
1680.09 km² overlap
Salonga National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
1582.02 km² overlap
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°
24,7°C
Annual rain
1 921mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,11
Runoff
843mm/an
PET
1 701mm
AET
1 562mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
99cm
Forest
98%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
67%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)