HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081201180
Bassin · #1081201180
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 : Lodja, Lomela
Sub-basin area
520,2km²
Upstream area
520,2km²
Discharge
9,4m³/s
Mean elev.
495m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 469.2 km²90.6% of basin
- 48.6 km²9.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sankuru
IUCN Not ReportedNature reserve
28.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
21 distinct species · 36 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°
24,6°C
Annual rain
1 772mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,04
Runoff
586mm/an
PET
1 695mm
AET
1 477mm
Mean slope
4,1°
Water table
135cm
Forest
96%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)