HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081253490
Bassin de Wamba
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 : Kasongo-Lunda, Kenge, Popokabaka
Sub-basin area
1 905,5km²
Upstream area
1 905,7km²
Discharge
23,21m³/s
Mean elev.
802m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 716.0 km²37.7% of basin
- 600.2 km²31.6% of basin
- 581.0 km²30.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
32 distinct species · 37 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 584mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
375mm/an
PET
1 681mm
AET
1 277mm
Mean slope
4,8°
Water table
375cm
Forest
78%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)