HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081293780
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 : Kapanga, Luiza
Sub-basin area
2 155,6km²
Upstream area
30 756,4km²
Discharge
167,86m³/s
Mean elev.
882m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lulua1866 km²
- Bassin de Rushish625 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1477.7 km²68.8% of basin
- 668.8 km²31.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
31 distinct species · 45 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 511mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,16
Runoff
244mm/an
PET
1 789mm
AET
1 238mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
201cm
Forest
93%
Crops
9%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)