HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081232350
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
285,6km²
Upstream area
147 683,4km²
Discharge
1 522,9m³/s
Mean elev.
428m
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°
24,8°C
Annual rain
1 716mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,04
Runoff
284mm/an
PET
1 652mm
AET
1 377mm
Mean slope
3,9°
Water table
207cm
Forest
93%
Crops
1%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)