HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081323260
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 2 administrative regions : Muconda, Saurimo
Sub-basin area
510km²
Upstream area
510km²
Discharge
4,17m³/s
Mean elev.
1 063m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 436.7 km²86.0% of basin
- 71.2 km²14.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
22,2°C
Annual rain
1 444mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
256mm/an
PET
1 885mm
AET
1 179mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
172cm
Forest
97%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)