HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081096020
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 2 administrative regions : Bongandanga, Lisala
Sub-basin area
674,1km²
Upstream area
1 349 386,6km²
Discharge
12 622,36m³/s
Mean elev.
360m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Congo1311 km²
- Bassin · #1081094890903 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 627.5 km²93.5% of basin
- 43.6 km²6.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 7 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°
25,3°C
Annual rain
1 889mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
320mm/an
PET
1 733mm
AET
1 467mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
28cm
Forest
65%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)