HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081163950
Bassin de Mesa
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 : Bafwasende, Lubutu, Walikale
Sub-basin area
1 794,6km²
Upstream area
1 794,6km²
Discharge
50,78m³/s
Mean elev.
870m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 902.9 km²50.5% of basin
- 807.0 km²45.2% of basin
- 76.7 km²4.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Maiko
IUCN IINational Park
1005.36 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°
22,8°C
Annual rain
1 696mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,02
Runoff
881mm/an
PET
1 658mm
AET
1 432mm
Mean slope
10,0°
Water table
386cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
56%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)