HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081058390
Bassin de Makongo
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 : Bambesa, Poko
Sub-basin area
241,8km²
Upstream area
2 990,4km²
Discharge
36,83m³/s
Mean elev.
644m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Makongo615 km²
- Bassin de Makongo441 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 146.0 km²60.7% of basin
- 94.6 km²39.3% of basin
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°
24,2°C
Annual rain
1 818mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
370mm/an
PET
1 731mm
AET
1 404mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
65cm
Forest
80%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)