HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081117410
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 1 administrative regions : Makanza
Sub-basin area
697,1km²
Upstream area
1 415 880,1km²
Discharge
13 408,71m³/s
Mean elev.
326m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Congo777 km²
- Bassin · #1081110310512 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 694.0 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ngiri
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
303.64 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
20 distinct species · 27 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 747mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,03
Runoff
180mm/an
PET
1 701mm
AET
1 436mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
14cm
Forest
71%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)