HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081171910
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
452,8km²
Upstream area
9 095,9km²
Discharge
234,73m³/s
Mean elev.
386m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Salonga1107 km²
- Bassin de Salonga185 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 439.8 km²97.6% of basin
- 11.0 km²2.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Salonga National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
431.35 km² overlap
Salonga
IUCN IINational Park
320.54 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 3 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 035mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,17
Runoff
808mm/an
PET
1 688mm
AET
1 612mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
66cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
71%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)