HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081236790
Bassin de Lufimi
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 2 administrative regions : Kenge, Kinshasa
Sub-basin area
959,3km²
Upstream area
2 680,3km²
Discharge
43,97m³/s
Mean elev.
654m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lufimi390 km²
- Bassin · #1081245370239 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- KinshasaKinshasa · Democratic Republic of the Congo737.6 km²77.2% of basin
- 217.5 km²22.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bombo Lumene
IUCN VIHunting Area
413.10 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
113 distinct species · 185 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 10 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Lufimi : 9 espèces reliées par 7 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 15.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
23,8°C
Annual rain
1 571mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,04
Runoff
541mm/an
PET
1 644mm
AET
1 270mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
309cm
Forest
34%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
43%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)