HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081194350
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
314,1km²
Upstream area
8 742,4km²
Discharge
198,17m³/s
Mean elev.
420m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081197480595 km²
- Bassin de Lwilaka206 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 312.7 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Salonga National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
309.58 km² overlap
Salonga
IUCN IINational Park
166.66 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
24,5°C
Annual rain
1 975mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,16
Runoff
683mm/an
PET
1 658mm
AET
1 550mm
Mean slope
3,2°
Water table
161cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
53%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)