HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081233290
Bassin de Lubefu
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 : Kole, Lodja, Lusambo
Sub-basin area
1 148,4km²
Upstream area
16 088,8km²
Discharge
177,39m³/s
Mean elev.
516m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lubefu1128 km²
- Bassin de Lubefu696 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 725.1 km²63.4% of basin
- 298.6 km²26.1% of basin
- 119.7 km²10.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
15 distinct species · 48 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°
25,0°C
Annual rain
1 716mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,02
Runoff
330mm/an
PET
1 754mm
AET
1 435mm
Mean slope
4,4°
Water table
140cm
Forest
94%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)