HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081225700
Bassin de Congo
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 across 2 countries : Kwamouth, Ngabé
Sub-basin area
15,6km²
Upstream area
3 608 071,8km²
Discharge
38 204,41m³/s
Mean elev.
366m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mai-Mpili760 km²
- Bassin de Congo418 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 11.1 km²71.4% of basin
- 4.5 km²28.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 5 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°
25,2°C
Annual rain
1 443mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,14
Runoff
621mm/an
PET
1 686mm
AET
1 221mm
Mean slope
5,7°
Water table
371cm
Forest
100%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)