HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081283550
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, Kamina, Kaniama
Sub-basin area
2 952,3km²
Upstream area
6 897km²
Discharge
96,29m³/s
Mean elev.
959m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
22,9°C
Annual rain
1 428mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,16
Runoff
428mm/an
PET
1 710mm
AET
1 158mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
147cm
Forest
79%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)