HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081297240
Bassin de Wamba
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 : Kahemba, Kasongo-Lunda
Sub-basin area
375,7km²
Upstream area
4 964,6km²
Discharge
61,34m³/s
Mean elev.
777m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kambondu1265 km²
- Bassin de Rio Uhamba760 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 372.0 km²99.4% of basin
- 2.1 km²0.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 8 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°
23,0°C
Annual rain
1 445mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,21
Runoff
307mm/an
PET
1 836mm
AET
1 214mm
Mean slope
6,5°
Water table
434cm
Forest
69%
Crops
4%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)