HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081092080
Bassin de Congo
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 4 administrative regions : Bongandanga, Bumba, Lisala, Lisala (ville)
Sub-basin area
2 023km²
Upstream area
1 340 413km²
Discharge
12 523,39m³/s
Mean elev.
402m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mioka1872 km²
- Bassin de Congo875 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1089.4 km²54.1% of basin
- 580.7 km²28.8% of basin
- 270.3 km²13.4% of basin
- 73.5 km²3.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
346 distinct species · 651 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 23 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Congo : 22 espèces reliées par 17 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 5.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,3°C
Annual rain
1 745mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,04
Runoff
486mm/an
PET
1 676mm
AET
1 371mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
123cm
Forest
65%
Crops
0%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)