HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081020780
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
50,2km²
Upstream area
60 453,1km²
Discharge
445,29m³/s
Mean elev.
558m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mbomou319 km²
- Bassin de Mbomou229 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 43.5 km²87.0% of basin
- 6.5 km²13.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bomu
IUCN IbWildlife Reserve
6.52 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°
24,4°C
Annual rain
1 790mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,02
Runoff
340mm/an
PET
1 752mm
AET
1 356mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
195cm
Forest
74%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
13%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)