HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081144180
Bassin de Sangha
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 3 administrative regions : Loukoléla, Mossaka, Ouesso
Sub-basin area
1 378,3km²
Upstream area
1 378,3km²
Discharge
9,17m³/s
Mean elev.
324m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 727.4 km²53.0% of basin
- 565.2 km²41.2% of basin
- 79.5 km²5.8% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Grands affluents
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
1372.09 km² overlap
Ntokou-Pikounda
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
0.23 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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 659mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,01
Runoff
211mm/an
PET
1 649mm
AET
1 389mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
5cm
Forest
96%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)