HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081229460
Bassin de Sankuru
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 : Dekese, Kole, Mweka
Sub-basin area
223,1km²
Upstream area
126 812,1km²
Discharge
1 285,21m³/s
Mean elev.
466m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,7°C
Annual rain
1 753mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,03
Runoff
345mm/an
PET
1 699mm
AET
1 445mm
Mean slope
3,7°
Water table
215cm
Forest
84%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)