HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081187410
Bassin de Uku
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 2 administrative regions : Punia, Shabunda
Sub-basin area
477,6km²
Upstream area
477,6km²
Discharge
16,9m³/s
Mean elev.
1 045m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 395.5 km²83.2% of basin
- 79.9 km²16.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kahuzi-Biega
IUCN IINational Park
2.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
21,4°C
Annual rain
2 054mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,24
Runoff
1 096mm/an
PET
1 562mm
AET
1 456mm
Mean slope
10,0°
Water table
312cm
Forest
100%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)