HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081272590
Bassin de Lwilu
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 : Luilu, Lukalaba, Ngandajika, Tshilenge
Sub-basin area
1 426,2km²
Upstream area
13 845,2km²
Discharge
153,14m³/s
Mean elev.
676m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lwilu1896 km²
- Bassin de Lwilu556 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 782.6 km²55.1% of basin
- 501.0 km²35.3% of basin
- 128.8 km²9.1% of basin
- 7.7 km²0.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
15 distinct species · 20 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°
24,6°C
Annual rain
1 464mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,19
Runoff
430mm/an
PET
1 798mm
AET
1 237mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
168cm
Forest
8%
Crops
3%
Urban
9%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)