HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081171980
Bassin de Likouala
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 1 administrative regions : Mossaka
Sub-basin area
298,6km²
Upstream area
71 434,6km²
Discharge
1 048,82m³/s
Mean elev.
299m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Likouala107 km²
- Bassin de Likouala41 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 297.2 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Grands affluents
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
290.35 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°
25,7°C
Annual rain
1 599mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,00
Runoff
336mm/an
PET
1 600mm
AET
1 353mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
22cm
Forest
87%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)