Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081203710

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 1 administrative regions : Dekese

Pfafstetter: 13272498

Sub-basin area

1 119,5km²

Upstream area

1 119,5km²

Discharge

24,44m³/s

Mean elev.

497m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Lwilaka90 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Salonga

    IUCN II

    National Park

    226.56 km² overlap

  • Salonga National Park

    IUCN Not Applicable

    World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)

    198.90 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

12 distinct species · 16 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

16 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 11
11–10
11–10
11–10
< 11

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

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 917mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,13

Runoff

682mm/an

PET

1 665mm

AET

1 517mm

Mean slope

4,4°

Water table

216cm

Forest

94%

Crops

0%

Urban

0%

Protected

20%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)