HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081327210
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
23,4km²
Upstream area
5 188,1km²
Discharge
50,45m³/s
Mean elev.
1 028m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tamba619 km²
- Bassin · #1081328020142 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 19.2 km²82.6% of basin
- 4.1 km²17.4% 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 385mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,27
Runoff
245mm/an
PET
1 895mm
AET
1 154mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
378cm
Forest
66%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)