HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081230570
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 : Dekese, Mweka
Sub-basin area
1 269,4km²
Upstream area
128 201,2km²
Discharge
1 346,26m³/s
Mean elev.
456m
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 749mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,03
Runoff
325mm/an
PET
1 691mm
AET
1 436mm
Mean slope
3,8°
Water table
222cm
Forest
76%
Crops
2%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)