HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081234150
Bassin de Lwama
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 : Kabambare
Sub-basin area
677,4km²
Upstream area
13 152,3km²
Discharge
51,35m³/s
Mean elev.
734m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Namala2053 km²
- Bassin de Lwama1413 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 674.4 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Luama-Kivu
IUCN VIHunting Area
298.20 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 10 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°
24,1°C
Annual rain
1 299mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,22
Runoff
135mm/an
PET
1 670mm
AET
1 098mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
135cm
Forest
86%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
44%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)