HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081244060
Bassin de Lwama
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 : Kabambare, Kasongo
Sub-basin area
3 909,5km²
Upstream area
25 099,1km²
Discharge
100,35m³/s
Mean elev.
657m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lwama3074 km²
- Bassin de Kilunguye2772 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 3837.0 km²98.6% of basin
- 55.4 km²1.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Luama-Kivu
IUCN VIHunting Area
68.40 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
118 distinct species · 209 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 13 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 Lwama : 13 espèces reliées par 9 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 11.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,3°C
Annual rain
1 405mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,19
Runoff
106mm/an
PET
1 745mm
AET
1 187mm
Mean slope
3,5°
Water table
268cm
Forest
88%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)