HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081297920
Bassin de Lwembe
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 : Kamina, Kaniama
Sub-basin area
500,7km²
Upstream area
3 376,9km²
Discharge
48,38m³/s
Mean elev.
1 007m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lwembe2218 km²
- Bassin de Lwembe659 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 257.1 km²51.6% of basin
- 241.5 km²48.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 20 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°
22,7°C
Annual rain
1 473mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
435mm/an
PET
1 701mm
AET
1 165mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
142cm
Forest
71%
Crops
16%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)