HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081131410
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 : Kisangani, Opala
Sub-basin area
265,9km²
Upstream area
969 996,9km²
Discharge
6 605,02m³/s
Mean elev.
438m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,1°C
Annual rain
1 782mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
507mm/an
PET
1 650mm
AET
1 441mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
64cm
Forest
36%
Crops
1%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)