HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081178730
Bassin de Tumbenga
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 2 administrative regions : Ikela, Lomela
Sub-basin area
839,8km²
Upstream area
3 370,3km²
Discharge
66,77m³/s
Mean elev.
469m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tumbenga557 km²
- Bassin de Tumbenga River394 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 654.4 km²78.3% of basin
- 181.7 km²21.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sankuru
IUCN Not ReportedNature reserve
85.74 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 9 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
1 840mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
658mm/an
PET
1 704mm
AET
1 522mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
91cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
17%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)