HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081228520
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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Kwamouth, Ngabé, Ngamaba
Sub-basin area
227,6km²
Upstream area
3 611 828,3km²
Discharge
38 293,58m³/s
Mean elev.
485m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Congo3529 km²
- Bassin de Congo16 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 133.7 km²59.0% of basin
- 80.6 km²35.6% of basin
- 12.3 km²5.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
18 distinct species · 24 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 492mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
639mm/an
PET
1 655mm
AET
1 248mm
Mean slope
5,1°
Water table
291cm
Forest
72%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)