HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081278570
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 2 administrative regions : Dibaya, Luiza
Sub-basin area
388,3km²
Upstream area
39 776,8km²
Discharge
239,97m³/s
Mean elev.
798m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lulua241 km²
- Bassin de Lulua183 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 352.6 km²91.2% of basin
- 34.1 km²8.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 13 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°
23,4°C
Annual rain
1 619mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
301mm/an
PET
1 726mm
AET
1 304mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
172cm
Forest
72%
Crops
2%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)