HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081186170
Bassin de Lwilaka
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 : Monkoto
Sub-basin area
203,6km²
Upstream area
12 705,9km²
Discharge
288,52m³/s
Mean elev.
389m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lwilaka1406 km²
- Bassin · #1081187690350 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 202.7 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Salonga National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
141.36 km² overlap
Salonga
IUCN IINational Park
71.79 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
76 distinct species · 163 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 13 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Lwilaka : 11 espèces reliées par 12 interactions GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 15.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,7°C
Annual rain
2 004mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,17
Runoff
641mm/an
PET
1 655mm
AET
1 569mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
92cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
35%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)