HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081178470
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 3 administrative regions : Kalehe, Masisi, Walikale
Sub-basin area
3 995,9km²
Upstream area
3 995,9km²
Discharge
127,73m³/s
Mean elev.
1 406m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
19,5°C
Annual rain
1 668mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
885mm/an
PET
1 517mm
AET
1 311mm
Mean slope
10,1°
Water table
372cm
Forest
88%
Crops
1%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)