HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081262030
Bassin de Lwange
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 : Gungu, Ilebo, Kamonia
Sub-basin area
109,3km²
Upstream area
35 681km²
Discharge
384,96m³/s
Mean elev.
534m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tobi2625 km²
- Bassin de Lwange224 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 53.4 km²49.0% of basin
- 50.9 km²46.7% of basin
- 4.6 km²4.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mangai
IUCN VINature reserve
56.47 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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°
24,8°C
Annual rain
1 561mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,09
Runoff
268mm/an
PET
1 724mm
AET
1 309mm
Mean slope
4,1°
Water table
302cm
Forest
42%
Crops
6%
Urban
12%
Protected
52%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)