HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081230290
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
127,8km²
Upstream area
125 516km²
Discharge
1 270,74m³/s
Mean elev.
470m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sankuru448 km²
- Bassin de Lukibu195 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 93.3 km²73.3% of basin
- 34.0 km²26.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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 742mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,02
Runoff
323mm/an
PET
1 712mm
AET
1 443mm
Mean slope
4,1°
Water table
225cm
Forest
71%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)