HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081250310
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 2 administrative regions : Kongolo, Nyunzu
Sub-basin area
366,9km²
Upstream area
366,9km²
Discharge
0,96m³/s
Mean elev.
932m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 359.0 km²98.3% of basin
- 6.3 km²1.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
22,8°C
Annual rain
1 306mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,21
Runoff
83mm/an
PET
1 645mm
AET
1 103mm
Mean slope
6,5°
Water table
419cm
Forest
90%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)