Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081234840

Bassin de Lwalaba

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 : Kasongo

Pfafstetter: 13279953

Sub-basin area

886km²

Upstream area

768 716,3km²

Discharge

4 425,12m³/s

Mean elev.

539m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

Drains into

Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

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

Species present

13 distinct species · 16 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

16 obs · 5 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 8
8–7
5–7
1–4
< 1

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°

25,5°C

Annual rain

1 394mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,21

Runoff

147mm/an

PET

1 773mm

AET

1 180mm

Mean slope

1,6°

Water table

172cm

Forest

81%

Crops

6%

Urban

1%

Protected

0%

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