HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081168510
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 : Loukoléla, Lukolela
Sub-basin area
165,5km²
Upstream area
2 352 527,3km²
Discharge
24 391,41m³/s
Mean elev.
298m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Manga1338 km²
- Bassin de Congo773 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 91.7 km²55.7% of basin
- 73.0 km²44.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ngiri
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
92.06 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
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,7°C
Annual rain
1 649mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
361mm/an
PET
1 567mm
AET
1 394mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
14cm
Forest
37%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)