HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081196570
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
250,6km²
Upstream area
8 113,8km²
Discharge
134,51m³/s
Mean elev.
456m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lomela951 km²
- Bassin de Lomela234 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 249.5 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sankuru
IUCN Not ReportedNature reserve
249.46 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 6 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 824mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
618mm/an
PET
1 721mm
AET
1 511mm
Mean slope
3,7°
Water table
106cm
Forest
95%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)