HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081156950
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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Bomongo, Impfondo, Lukolela
Sub-basin area
4,9km²
Upstream area
648 280,5km²
Discharge
5 167,1m³/s
Mean elev.
295m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Congo973 km²
- Bassin de Congo150 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2.0 km²42.0% of basin
- 1.7 km²35.9% of basin
- 1.1 km²22.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ngiri
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
3.10 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
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°
25,4°C
Annual rain
1 723mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
360mm/an
PET
1 591mm
AET
1 435mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
4cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)