HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081303830
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
477,4km²
Upstream area
224 788,7km²
Discharge
1 467,37m³/s
Mean elev.
1 048m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lubule1460 km²
- Bassin de Luvua535 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 475.4 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
23,2°C
Annual rain
1 056mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
78mm/an
PET
1 694mm
AET
892mm
Mean slope
6,7°
Water table
456cm
Forest
58%
Crops
17%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)