HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081182210
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 3 administrative regions : Kailo, Punia, Ubundu
Sub-basin area
460,6km²
Upstream area
847 165km²
Discharge
3 308,38m³/s
Mean elev.
488m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kasuku2063 km²
- Bassin de Lwalaba81 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 359.7 km²78.4% of basin
- 82.3 km²18.0% of basin
- 16.5 km²3.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 7 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 873mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,11
Runoff
934mm/an
PET
1 674mm
AET
1 479mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
33cm
Forest
83%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)