HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081254280
Bassin de Lulua
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 4 administrative regions : Demba, Luebo, Luebo (ville), Mweka
Sub-basin area
689,4km²
Upstream area
61 876,8km²
Discharge
409,08m³/s
Mean elev.
504m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Luelo1341 km²
- Bassin de Lulua899 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 431.7 km²62.9% of basin
- 244.0 km²35.6% of basin
- 10.5 km²1.5% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
27 distinct species · 101 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°
24,9°C
Annual rain
1 590mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,08
Runoff
180mm/an
PET
1 730mm
AET
1 344mm
Mean slope
4,8°
Water table
257cm
Forest
57%
Crops
1%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)