HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081316840
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
960,5km²
Upstream area
63 176,6km²
Discharge
417,13m³/s
Mean elev.
606m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lwalaba610 km²
- Bassin de Lwalaba561 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 956.5 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Bassin de la Lufira
IUCN IIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
614.05 km² overlap
Upemba
IUCN IINational Park
404.14 km² overlap
Bena Mulumbu
IUCN IVHunting Area
208.32 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
80 distinct species · 153 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 11 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Lwalaba : 8 espèces reliées par 12 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 18.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,7°C
Annual rain
976mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
169mm/an
PET
1 847mm
AET
824mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
103cm
Forest
32%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
23%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)