HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081160530
Bassin de Tshuapa
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 : Bokungu, Ikela
Sub-basin area
79,4km²
Upstream area
38 060km²
Discharge
788,81m³/s
Mean elev.
392m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Loile2532 km²
- Bassin de Tshuapa603 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 47.1 km²59.6% of basin
- 31.9 km²40.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 18 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°
24,7°C
Annual rain
1 981mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,14
Runoff
859mm/an
PET
1 701mm
AET
1 571mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
73cm
Forest
98%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)