HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081161070
Bassin de Likouala
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 : Loukoléla, Mossaka, Owando
Sub-basin area
1 358,2km²
Upstream area
51 669,6km²
Discharge
727,61m³/s
Mean elev.
314m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Likouala728 km²
- Bassin de Likouala224 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1274.9 km²94.3% of basin
- 77.1 km²5.7% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Grands affluents
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
1352.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 16 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°
25,5°C
Annual rain
1 634mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,01
Runoff
297mm/an
PET
1 619mm
AET
1 381mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
11cm
Forest
98%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)