HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081306060
Bassin de Lwachimo
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 : Lucapa
Sub-basin area
324,4km²
Upstream area
13 540,3km²
Discharge
125,48m³/s
Mean elev.
865m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lwachimo2309 km²
- Bassin · #10813094101711 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Lucapa323.1 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
18 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°
23,5°C
Annual rain
1 444mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
290mm/an
PET
1 870mm
AET
1 214mm
Mean slope
3,3°
Water table
319cm
Forest
69%
Crops
5%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)