HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081245460
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 4 administrative regions : Kenge, Kimvula, Kinshasa, Popokabaka
Sub-basin area
389,9km²
Upstream area
1 481,6km²
Discharge
23,11m³/s
Mean elev.
669m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lufimi594 km²
- Bassin de Bombi498 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 213.1 km²54.9% of basin
- KinshasaKinshasa · Democratic Republic of the Congo101.5 km²26.2% of basin
- 60.1 km²15.5% of basin
- 13.4 km²3.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bombo Lumene
IUCN VIHunting Area
14.58 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
23,9°C
Annual rain
1 581mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,05
Runoff
497mm/an
PET
1 661mm
AET
1 271mm
Mean slope
4,5°
Water table
339cm
Forest
58%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)