HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081231340
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
1 960,1km²
Upstream area
147 078,2km²
Discharge
1 517,15m³/s
Mean elev.
454m
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°
24,6°C
Annual rain
1 747mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
299mm/an
PET
1 662mm
AET
1 408mm
Mean slope
4,2°
Water table
208cm
Forest
88%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)