Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081177830

Bassin de Tshuapa

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 3 administrative regions : Ikela, Lomela, Opala

Pfafstetter: 13272991

Sub-basin area

1 981,2km²

Upstream area

10 049,9km²

Discharge

174,2m³/s

Mean elev.

502m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Tshuapa162 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Sankuru

    IUCN Not Reported

    Nature reserve

    1174.23 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.

Densité d'observations

2 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 1
1–0
1–0
1–0
< 1

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

1 813mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,06

Runoff

600mm/an

PET

1 696mm

AET

1 504mm

Mean slope

3,5°

Water table

220cm

Forest

97%

Crops

0%

Urban

0%

Protected

61%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)