HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081143580
Bassin de Likouala
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 1 administrative regions : Makoua
Sub-basin area
269,9km²
Upstream area
14 237,3km²
Discharge
241,08m³/s
Mean elev.
352m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Likouala245 km²
- Bassin de Likouala173 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 268.7 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
15 distinct species · 21 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 658mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,02
Runoff
283mm/an
PET
1 695mm
AET
1 391mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
66cm
Forest
36%
Crops
4%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)