HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081229670
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 2 administrative regions : Kole, Mweka
Sub-basin area
447,8km²
Upstream area
122 522,3km²
Discharge
1 245,37m³/s
Mean elev.
481m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sankuru918 km²
- Bassin de Sankuru854 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 444.2 km²99.6% of basin
- 1.7 km²0.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
17 distinct species · 25 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°
24,7°C
Annual rain
1 743mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,02
Runoff
333mm/an
PET
1 712mm
AET
1 443mm
Mean slope
4,4°
Water table
220cm
Forest
85%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)