HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081230050
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, Tshumbe
Sub-basin area
917,8km²
Upstream area
121 219,9km²
Discharge
1 231,47m³/s
Mean elev.
491m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sankuru389 km²
- Bassin de Sankuru320 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 892.9 km²97.7% of basin
- 20.8 km²2.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
11 distinct species · 11 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°
24,8°C
Annual rain
1 729mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,00
Runoff
303mm/an
PET
1 726mm
AET
1 439mm
Mean slope
4,9°
Water table
213cm
Forest
88%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)