HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081252740
Bassin de Lwalaba
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, Kongolo (ville)
Sub-basin area
138,4km²
Upstream area
723 584,9km²
Discharge
4 316,95m³/s
Mean elev.
600m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10812550001126 km²
- Bassin de Lwalaba617 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 131.6 km²95.5% of basin
- 6.3 km²4.5% 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°
25,0°C
Annual rain
1 234mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
125mm/an
PET
1 824mm
AET
1 044mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
305cm
Forest
83%
Crops
16%
Urban
9%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)