HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081280510
Bassin de Lwembe
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 3 administrative regions : Kabongo, Kaniama, Ngandajika
Sub-basin area
1 313,2km²
Upstream area
9 015,3km²
Discharge
121,11m³/s
Mean elev.
760m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lwembe2952 km²
- Bassin de Lwembe805 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 747.4 km²57.2% of basin
- 427.6 km²32.7% of basin
- 132.6 km²10.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
50 distinct species · 111 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°
24,1°C
Annual rain
1 260mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
388mm/an
PET
1 769mm
AET
1 065mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
164cm
Forest
80%
Crops
16%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)