HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081195440
Bassin de Lomela
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 : Lomela
Sub-basin area
320,9km²
Upstream area
8 714,1km²
Discharge
146,63m³/s
Mean elev.
450m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lomela280 km²
- Bassin de Lomela251 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 319.5 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sankuru
IUCN Not ReportedNature reserve
265.42 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
44 distinct species · 73 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°
24,9°C
Annual rain
1 862mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
656mm/an
PET
1 723mm
AET
1 531mm
Mean slope
3,8°
Water table
122cm
Forest
77%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
11%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)