HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081173590
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 1 administrative regions : Monkoto
Sub-basin area
1 106,9km²
Upstream area
8 458,1km²
Discharge
218,23m³/s
Mean elev.
402m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Salonga2174 km²
- Bassin de Salonga595 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1102.0 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Salonga National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
985.34 km² overlap
Salonga
IUCN IINational Park
823.59 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 12 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
2 017mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,16
Runoff
826mm/an
PET
1 689mm
AET
1 605mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
67cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
75%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)