HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081295820
Bassin de Luwe
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 4 administrative regions : Malemba-Nkulu, Manono, Mitwaba, Pweto
Sub-basin area
2 738,2km²
Upstream area
2 738,3km²
Discharge
14,31m³/s
Mean elev.
1 023m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1979.2 km²72.6% of basin
- 481.3 km²17.7% of basin
- 218.2 km²8.0% of basin
- 48.0 km²1.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
17 distinct species · 22 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°
23,1°C
Annual rain
1 057mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
157mm/an
PET
1 705mm
AET
893mm
Mean slope
4,8°
Water table
454cm
Forest
91%
Crops
15%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)