HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081174950
Bassin de Congo
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
94,9km²
Upstream area
285 042,8km²
Discharge
3 341,03m³/s
Mean elev.
290m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sangha859 km²
- Bassin de Congo11 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 94.5 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Grands affluents
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
45.81 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
25,8°C
Annual rain
1 585mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,01
Runoff
332mm/an
PET
1 609mm
AET
1 341mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
3cm
Forest
36%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)