HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081245370
Bassin · #1081245370
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 : Kimvula, Kinshasa
Sub-basin area
239km²
Upstream area
239,1km²
Discharge
3,88m³/s
Mean elev.
682m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- KinshasaKinshasa · Democratic Republic of the Congo220.5 km²92.7% of basin
- 17.5 km²7.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bombo Lumene
IUCN VIHunting Area
156.09 km² overlap
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
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°
23,7°C
Annual rain
1 578mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,04
Runoff
509mm/an
PET
1 644mm
AET
1 267mm
Mean slope
4,7°
Water table
355cm
Forest
51%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
66%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)