HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081218370
Bassin de Kitongo
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 : Fizi, Mwenga, Shabunda
Sub-basin area
1 045,1km²
Upstream area
1 045,6km²
Discharge
19,52m³/s
Mean elev.
1 401m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 673.1 km²64.7% of basin
- 286.4 km²27.5% of basin
- 81.1 km²7.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
32 distinct species · 45 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°
20,8°C
Annual rain
1 610mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
492mm/an
PET
1 524mm
AET
1 211mm
Mean slope
8,3°
Water table
258cm
Forest
100%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)