HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081235680
Bassin de Lukaya
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 : Kasangulu, Kasangulu (ville), Kinshasa
Sub-basin area
2 258,9km²
Upstream area
2 258,9km²
Discharge
38,51m³/s
Mean elev.
413m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,7°C
Annual rain
1 391mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,14
Runoff
538mm/an
PET
1 615mm
AET
1 161mm
Mean slope
5,5°
Water table
221cm
Forest
71%
Crops
3%
Urban
15%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)