HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081168940
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 : Ikela, Opala
Sub-basin area
184,4km²
Upstream area
23 306,2km²
Discharge
440,6m³/s
Mean elev.
420m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tshuapa736 km²
- Bassin de Tshuapa461 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 183.5 km²99.9% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.1% of basin
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°
24,6°C
Annual rain
1 900mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,10
Runoff
695mm/an
PET
1 703mm
AET
1 545mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
73cm
Forest
80%
Crops
0%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)