HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081098280
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, Lisala, Makanza
Sub-basin area
2 516,8km²
Upstream area
52 354,9km²
Discharge
708,58m³/s
Mean elev.
369m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mongala106 km²
- Bassin de Banga-Melo105 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1866.4 km²74.5% of basin
- 516.2 km²20.6% of basin
- 123.0 km²4.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
12 distinct species · 16 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°
25,2°C
Annual rain
1 832mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
279mm/an
PET
1 737mm
AET
1 445mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
69cm
Forest
92%
Crops
0%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)