HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081169420
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
680,7km²
Upstream area
10 077,4km²
Discharge
259,94m³/s
Mean elev.
380m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Salonga453 km²
- Bassin de Salonga300 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 536.0 km²79.1% of basin
- 141.7 km²20.9% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Salonga National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
535.35 km² overlap
Salonga
IUCN IINational Park
380.96 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
12 distinct species · 14 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 048mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,18
Runoff
801mm/an
PET
1 687mm
AET
1 619mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
52cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
56%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)