HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081361630
Bassin de West Lunga
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 : Ikelenge, Mwinilunga
Sub-basin area
722,2km²
Upstream area
3 547,1km²
Discharge
29,98m³/s
Mean elev.
1 415m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de West Lunga1627 km²
- Bassin de Sweta1198 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 659.6 km²91.7% of basin
- 59.8 km²8.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kalenga
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
69.97 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
180 distinct species · 324 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 12 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 West Lunga : 10 espèces reliées par 11 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 16.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
19,7°C
Annual rain
1 392mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,18
Runoff
301mm/an
PET
1 690mm
AET
1 015mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
240cm
Forest
100%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)