HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081104960
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 : Basankusu, Bongandanga, Makanza
Sub-basin area
844,8km²
Upstream area
3 007,9km²
Discharge
30,47m³/s
Mean elev.
339m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10811015501120 km²
- Bassin · #1081101350137 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 815.0 km²96.9% of basin
- 23.9 km²2.8% of basin
- 2.1 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ngiri
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
27.67 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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 793mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,04
Runoff
244mm/an
PET
1 714mm
AET
1 452mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
23cm
Forest
90%
Crops
0%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)