HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081192070
Bassin de Loto
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 : Kole, Lomela, Monkoto
Sub-basin area
734,2km²
Upstream area
2 615,9km²
Discharge
63,99m³/s
Mean elev.
460m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081197950447 km²
- Bassin de Loto186 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 490.9 km²67.2% of basin
- 224.7 km²30.7% of basin
- 15.3 km²2.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Salonga
IUCN IINational Park
410.82 km² overlap
Salonga National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
210.24 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°
24,5°C
Annual rain
1 935mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,13
Runoff
805mm/an
PET
1 685mm
AET
1 555mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
126cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
56%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)