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
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
- Bassin de Congo266 km²
- Bassin de Lindi30 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 188.2 km²63.8% of basin
- 71.4 km²24.2% of basin
- 32.2 km²10.9% of basin
- 3.5 km²1.2% of basin
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.
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)