HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081311170
Bassin de Lwalaba
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 : Bukama
Sub-basin area
240,6km²
Upstream area
3 489,5km²
Discharge
14,42m³/s
Mean elev.
567m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081311470327 km²
- Bassin · #1081311580116 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 239.6 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Bassin de la Lufira
IUCN IIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
239.56 km² overlap
Upemba
IUCN IINational Park
230.77 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
22 distinct species · 29 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°
25,0°C
Annual rain
942mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
107mm/an
PET
1 842mm
AET
796mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
11cm
Forest
0%
Crops
2%
Urban
5%
Protected
87%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)