HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081365780
Bassin de Lwela
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 1 administrative regions : Milengi
Sub-basin area
8,4km²
Upstream area
3 352,8km²
Discharge
38,42m³/s
Mean elev.
1 088m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lwela2402 km²
- Bassin de Lwela943 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Mansa
IUCN VIGame Management Area
0.00 km² overlap
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
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
20,9°C
Annual rain
1 238mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,28
Runoff
318mm/an
PET
1 709mm
AET
916mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
113cm
Forest
82%
Crops
21%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)