HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081269650
Bassin de Lwalaba
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 : Kabalo
Sub-basin area
1 361,7km²
Upstream area
443 607,5km²
Discharge
2 519,01m³/s
Mean elev.
604m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lwalaba2579 km²
- Bassin de Luvidjo2026 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1355.8 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
45 distinct species · 219 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 046mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,42
Runoff
103mm/an
PET
1 811mm
AET
884mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
114cm
Forest
96%
Crops
16%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)