HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081401920
Bassin de Kabompo
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 : Kabompo, Lukulu
Sub-basin area
280,5km²
Upstream area
44 714,4km²
Discharge
323,09m³/s
Mean elev.
1 097m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kabompo387 km²
- Bassin de Kabompo109 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 277.9 km²99.4% of basin
- 1.6 km²0.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kabompo
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
122.12 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 25 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°
21,9°C
Annual rain
1 020mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,46
Runoff
116mm/an
PET
1 903mm
AET
861mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
220cm
Forest
100%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
84%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)