HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081375320
Bassin de Lwamasonga
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 : Mwinilunga
Sub-basin area
168,7km²
Upstream area
168,7km²
Discharge
1,39m³/s
Mean elev.
1 349m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 168.0 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Lunda
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
131.96 km² overlap
Chibwika Ntambu
IUCN VIGame Management Area
93.83 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°
19,9°C
Annual rain
1 302mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
260mm/an
PET
1 744mm
AET
997mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
280cm
Forest
100%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
79%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)