Ontologia

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

Pfafstetter: 13272659

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

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Salonga National Park

    IUCN Not Applicable

    World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)

    985.34 km² overlap

  • Salonga

    IUCN II

    National 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.

Densité d'observations

12 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 11
11–10
11–10
11–10
< 11

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

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)