HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081291510
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 1 administrative regions : Luiza
Sub-basin area
332,6km²
Upstream area
34 670,6km²
Discharge
195,72m³/s
Mean elev.
856m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lulua2156 km²
- Bassin de Riz449 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 331.1 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bushimaie
IUCN VIHunting Area
242.10 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 4 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°
23,3°C
Annual rain
1 553mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,12
Runoff
296mm/an
PET
1 764mm
AET
1 259mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
195cm
Forest
94%
Crops
5%
Urban
2%
Protected
73%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)