HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081129350
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 : Bolomba, Bomongo, Makanza
Sub-basin area
751,8km²
Upstream area
1 417 851km²
Discharge
13 439,73m³/s
Mean elev.
317m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Congo435 km²
- Bassin de Congo33 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 724.1 km²96.8% of basin
- 20.3 km²2.7% of basin
- 4.0 km²0.5% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Ngiri
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
589.08 km² overlap
Réserve du triangle de la Ngiri
IUCN Not ReportedNature reserve
147.47 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 3 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 741mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,03
Runoff
250mm/an
PET
1 688mm
AET
1 432mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
12cm
Forest
70%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)