HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081077060
Bassin de Mongala
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 3 administrative regions : Budjala, Businga, Lisala
Sub-basin area
591,5km²
Upstream area
591,5km²
Discharge
7,87m³/s
Mean elev.
410m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 579.1 km²98.3% of basin
- 7.5 km²1.3% of basin
- 2.3 km²0.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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°
24,6°C
Annual rain
1 662mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
420mm/an
PET
1 715mm
AET
1 361mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
59cm
Forest
73%
Crops
0%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)