HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081150920
Bassin de Salonga
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 : Boende, Ingende
Sub-basin area
1 300,9km²
Upstream area
21 387,8km²
Discharge
525,2m³/s
Mean elev.
346m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Salonga2603 km²
- Bassin de Longoi705 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 945.1 km²73.0% of basin
- 350.0 km²27.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
18 distinct species · 33 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°
26,5°C
Annual rain
2 046mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,17
Runoff
679mm/an
PET
1 706mm
AET
1 613mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
21cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)