HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081231640
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 1 administrative regions : Kole
Sub-basin area
388,6km²
Upstream area
119 982,3km²
Discharge
1 233,98m³/s
Mean elev.
507m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sankuru310 km²
- Bassin de Sankuru266 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 386.9 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
164 distinct species · 345 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 731mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,00
Runoff
315mm/an
PET
1 731mm
AET
1 439mm
Mean slope
4,5°
Water table
194cm
Forest
70%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)