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
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
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)