HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081129790
Bassin de Tshopo
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 : Bafwasende, Ubundu
Sub-basin area
2 043km²
Upstream area
2 043,5km²
Discharge
34,71m³/s
Mean elev.
552m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1778.3 km²87.4% of basin
- 255.6 km²12.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
46 distinct species · 100 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°
24,5°C
Annual rain
1 855mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,11
Runoff
540mm/an
PET
1 659mm
AET
1 494mm
Mean slope
3,2°
Water table
136cm
Forest
96%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)