HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081018760
Bassin de Mbomou
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 : Bondo, Rafaï
Sub-basin area
529,5km²
Upstream area
59 592,6km²
Discharge
450,76m³/s
Mean elev.
587m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mbomou574 km²
- Bassin de Mbomou326 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 424.6 km²80.5% of basin
- 102.7 km²19.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bomu
IUCN IbWildlife Reserve
99.18 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 1 559 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°
24,4°C
Annual rain
1 748mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,01
Runoff
342mm/an
PET
1 765mm
AET
1 316mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
150cm
Forest
43%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
19%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)