HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081158630
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 : Bikoro, Bomongo, Lukolela
Sub-basin area
122km²
Upstream area
8 120,3km²
Discharge
105,51m³/s
Mean elev.
304m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081157540724 km²
- Bassin · #1081157460690 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 89.3 km²73.5% of basin
- 19.5 km²16.0% of basin
- 12.7 km²10.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ngiri
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
121.50 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
54 distinct species · 71 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 735mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,09
Runoff
367mm/an
PET
1 587mm
AET
1 443mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
35cm
Forest
72%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)