HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081262370
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, Dibaya, Kananga, Kazumba
Sub-basin area
2 668,8km²
Upstream area
47 546,9km²
Discharge
319,98m³/s
Mean elev.
638m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lulua2171 km²
- Bassin de Moyo1819 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 912.3 km²34.3% of basin
- 700.2 km²26.3% of basin
- 607.4 km²22.9% of basin
- 437.4 km²16.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
641 distinct species · 1 638 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 14 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Lulua : 11 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 11 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,7°C
Annual rain
1 689mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,02
Runoff
272mm/an
PET
1 725mm
AET
1 373mm
Mean slope
3,5°
Water table
160cm
Forest
60%
Crops
1%
Urban
16%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)