HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081222510
Bassin de Simunambi
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 : Fizi, Shabunda
Sub-basin area
1 801,7km²
Upstream area
1 802,3km²
Discharge
28,86m³/s
Mean elev.
898m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1791.4 km²99.9% of basin
- 2.4 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Luama-Kivu
IUCN VIHunting Area
329.82 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
28 distinct species · 47 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°
23,2°C
Annual rain
1 584mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,04
Runoff
500mm/an
PET
1 649mm
AET
1 284mm
Mean slope
7,3°
Water table
267cm
Forest
96%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
18%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)