HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081183700
Bassin de Tumbenga River
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
394,3km²
Upstream area
1 973,8km²
Discharge
37,38m³/s
Mean elev.
470m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tumbenga River1323 km²
- Bassin de Tumbenga256 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 384.5 km²97.9% of basin
- 8.1 km²2.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sankuru
IUCN Not ReportedNature reserve
264.68 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
24,7°C
Annual rain
1 825mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
646mm/an
PET
1 707mm
AET
1 517mm
Mean slope
3,5°
Water table
96cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
70%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)