HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081253500
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
3 993,2km²
Upstream area
21 221,9km²
Discharge
239,31m³/s
Mean elev.
708m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Wamba3041 km²
- Bassin de Putukasa702 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1742.0 km²43.8% of basin
- 1695.7 km²42.6% of basin
- 538.3 km²13.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
40 distinct species · 46 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°
23,2°C
Annual rain
1 565mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,08
Runoff
372mm/an
PET
1 702mm
AET
1 274mm
Mean slope
8,1°
Water table
421cm
Forest
80%
Crops
2%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)