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
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
- Bassin de Mulongoi4755 km²
- Bassin de Lwalaba487 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 882.1 km²100.0% of basin
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.
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)