HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081301440
Bassin de Luvua
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 : Pweto
Sub-basin area
543,6km²
Upstream area
230 893,2km²
Discharge
1 471,84m³/s
Mean elev.
1 007m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Luvua477 km²
- Bassin de Kilulishi228 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 541.3 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 30 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 037mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
89mm/an
PET
1 702mm
AET
877mm
Mean slope
4,7°
Water table
392cm
Forest
69%
Crops
19%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)