HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081080540
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 2 administrative regions : Budjala, Lisala
Sub-basin area
240,7km²
Upstream area
37 200,5km²
Discharge
519,34m³/s
Mean elev.
385m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081078020255 km²
- Bassin de Mongala27 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 128.0 km²53.4% of basin
- 111.6 km²46.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
27 distinct species · 32 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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
1 731mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,00
Runoff
399mm/an
PET
1 724mm
AET
1 390mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
104cm
Forest
90%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)