HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081158560
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 2 administrative regions across 2 countries : Impfondo, Lukolela
Sub-basin area
26,4km²
Upstream area
2 341 691,3km²
Discharge
23 758,78m³/s
Mean elev.
297m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Congo1678 km²
- Bassin de Congo5 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 25.2 km²95.9% of basin
- 1.1 km²4.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ngiri
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
25.16 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 724mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
363mm/an
PET
1 589mm
AET
1 437mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
24cm
Forest
4%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)