Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081131310

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 4 administrative regions : Banalia, Isangi, Kisangani, Opala

Pfafstetter: 13279109

Sub-basin area

296,5km²

Upstream area

1 029 860km²

Discharge

7 589,67m³/s

Mean elev.

439m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

Drains into

Receives from 2 basins

4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

69 distinct species · 147 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

147 obs · 4 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 133
133–132
8–132
8–7
< 8

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

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 788mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,08

Runoff

505mm/an

PET

1 651mm

AET

1 443mm

Mean slope

1,9°

Water table

85cm

Forest

70%

Crops

1%

Urban

2%

Protected

0%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)