HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081126540
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 2 administrative regions : Isangi, Yangambi
Sub-basin area
138,3km²
Upstream area
1 033 951,4km²
Discharge
7 656,31m³/s
Mean elev.
414m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lubilu1222 km²
- Bassin de Congo1066 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 106.0 km²77.0% of basin
- 31.7 km²23.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 009 distinct species · 3 768 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 8 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Congo : 5 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 7 interactions GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 25.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,8°C
Annual rain
1 762mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
532mm/an
PET
1 654mm
AET
1 418mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
116cm
Forest
52%
Crops
3%
Urban
20%
Protected
37%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)