HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081178980
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 3 administrative regions : Bokungu, Lomela, Monkoto
Sub-basin area
2 173,8km²
Upstream area
6 756km²
Discharge
173,25m³/s
Mean elev.
433m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Salonga1531 km²
- Bassin de Loto171 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1856.5 km²85.8% of basin
- 295.0 km²13.6% of basin
- 12.6 km²0.6% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Salonga National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
2164.16 km² overlap
Salonga
IUCN IINational Park
2164.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 18 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°
24,5°C
Annual rain
1 973mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,14
Runoff
835mm/an
PET
1 687mm
AET
1 582mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
114cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)