HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081275230
Bassin · #1081275230
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 2 administrative regions across 2 countries : Lake Tanganyika, Moba
Sub-basin area
665,8km²
Upstream area
5 851,5km²
Discharge
31,61m³/s
Mean elev.
825m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lufuko777 km²
- Bassin · #1081277220359 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 662.0 km²99.9% of basin
- 1.0 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 25 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°
24,0°C
Annual rain
960mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,42
Runoff
73mm/an
PET
1 649mm
AET
812mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
96cm
Forest
20%
Crops
6%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)