HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081203620
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 4 administrative regions : Dekese, Kole, Lomela, Monkoto
Sub-basin area
2 629,2km²
Upstream area
2 629,2km²
Discharge
61,72m³/s
Mean elev.
497m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1038.9 km²39.7% of basin
- 1034.3 km²39.5% of basin
- 438.4 km²16.7% of basin
- 105.9 km²4.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Salonga National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
242.74 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
33 distinct species · 34 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°
24,3°C
Annual rain
1 932mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,13
Runoff
719mm/an
PET
1 671mm
AET
1 529mm
Mean slope
4,1°
Water table
192cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)