HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081200590
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 3 administrative regions : Katako-Kombe, Lodja, Lomela
Sub-basin area
763,2km²
Upstream area
5 674,9km²
Discharge
91,5m³/s
Mean elev.
484m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lomela2585 km²
- Bassin de Lomela2327 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 518.4 km²68.2% of basin
- 241.2 km²31.7% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sankuru
IUCN Not ReportedNature reserve
759.84 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 9 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°
24,8°C
Annual rain
1 749mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,02
Runoff
547mm/an
PET
1 717mm
AET
1 464mm
Mean slope
4,2°
Water table
159cm
Forest
98%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
97%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)