HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081351750
Bassin de Lualaba
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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Kambove, Mutshatsha, Mwinilunga
Sub-basin area
759,1km²
Upstream area
8 939,9km²
Discharge
63,58m³/s
Mean elev.
1 397m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lualaba664 km²
- Bassin de Lualaba549 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 749.4 km²99.1% of basin
- 4.0 km²0.5% of basin
- 2.7 km²0.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
26 distinct species · 38 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°
20,2°C
Annual rain
1 218mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,28
Runoff
269mm/an
PET
1 688mm
AET
969mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
192cm
Forest
100%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)