HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081242360
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
217,8km²
Upstream area
757 828,4km²
Discharge
4 423,65m³/s
Mean elev.
566m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lwama3910 km²
- Bassin de Lwalaba777 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 216.8 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
1 384mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
121mm/an
PET
1 801mm
AET
1 170mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
179cm
Forest
76%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)