HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081100400
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 3 administrative regions : Bongandanga, Budjala, Makanza
Sub-basin area
1 344,1km²
Upstream area
1 404 887km²
Discharge
13 359,32m³/s
Mean elev.
344m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mongala2517 km²
- Bassin de Congo166 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 745.0 km²55.7% of basin
- 542.1 km²40.5% of basin
- 50.9 km²3.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
21 distinct species · 52 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 809mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,04
Runoff
240mm/an
PET
1 729mm
AET
1 447mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
12cm
Forest
93%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)