HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081169280
Bassin de Salonga
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 : Boende, Monkoto
Sub-basin area
386,1km²
Upstream area
386,1km²
Discharge
10m³/s
Mean elev.
392m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 311.9 km²81.1% of basin
- 72.5 km²18.9% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Salonga National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
80.65 km² overlap
Salonga
IUCN IINational Park
0.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
15 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°
24,7°C
Annual rain
2 062mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,18
Runoff
817mm/an
PET
1 686mm
AET
1 625mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
63cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)