HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081286850
Bassin · #1081286850
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 : Mlele, Nkasi
Sub-basin area
526,3km²
Upstream area
526,4km²
Discharge
4,34m³/s
Mean elev.
1 564m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 508.9 km²97.1% of basin
- 15.2 km²2.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Chala Hills
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
21.29 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
56 distinct species · 112 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°
25,7°C
Annual rain
940mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
255mm/an
PET
1 837mm
AET
794mm
Mean slope
7,8°
Water table
433cm
Forest
24%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)