HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081337180
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 2 administrative regions : Lubudi, Mutshatsha
Sub-basin area
31,1km²
Upstream area
23 402km²
Discharge
174,34m³/s
Mean elev.
967m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lwalaba385 km²
- Bassin de Lufupa263 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 19.9 km²64.2% of basin
- 11.1 km²35.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 6 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°
22,5°C
Annual rain
1 117mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
180mm/an
PET
1 772mm
AET
941mm
Mean slope
6,4°
Water table
459cm
Forest
100%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)