HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081255920
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 1 administrative regions : Demba
Sub-basin area
821km²
Upstream area
55 280,6km²
Discharge
376,41m³/s
Mean elev.
535m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lulua943 km²
- Bassin de Tshibungu687 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 817.4 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 10 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 628mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
227mm/an
PET
1 734mm
AET
1 366mm
Mean slope
3,8°
Water table
184cm
Forest
66%
Crops
0%
Urban
9%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)