HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081156960
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 4 administrative regions : Bikoro, Bomongo, Lukolela, Mbandaka
Sub-basin area
1 678,3km²
Upstream area
1 693 384,5km²
Discharge
18 379,13m³/s
Mean elev.
313m
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°
25,4°C
Annual rain
1 714mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
344mm/an
PET
1 624mm
AET
1 418mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
14cm
Forest
78%
Crops
3%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)