HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081362430
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 2 administrative regions across 2 countries : Kambove, Solwezi
Sub-basin area
995,4km²
Upstream area
995,6km²
Discharge
6,82m³/s
Mean elev.
1 461m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 979.8 km²98.8% of basin
- 11.7 km²1.2% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 18 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°
19,1°C
Annual rain
1 300mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
216mm/an
PET
1 681mm
AET
955mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
145cm
Forest
100%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)