HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081248390
Bassin de Lwika
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 3 administrative regions : Kabambare, Kongolo, Nyunzu
Sub-basin area
955,9km²
Upstream area
3 425,7km²
Discharge
9,09m³/s
Mean elev.
718m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lwika1418 km²
- Bassin de Lwika367 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 713.1 km²74.9% of basin
- 178.5 km²18.8% of basin
- 60.1 km²6.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 45 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°
24,0°C
Annual rain
1 291mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
91mm/an
PET
1 724mm
AET
1 092mm
Mean slope
4,1°
Water table
296cm
Forest
83%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)