HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081122990
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 : Isangi
Sub-basin area
72,2km²
Upstream area
1 138 989,5km²
Discharge
9 733,67m³/s
Mean elev.
382m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lomami1059 km²
- Bassin de Congo486 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 71.8 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
43 distinct species · 96 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°
25,0°C
Annual rain
1 780mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
563mm/an
PET
1 658mm
AET
1 431mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
23cm
Forest
63%
Crops
2%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)