HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081232660
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 3 administrative regions : Dekese, Mweka, Oshwe
Sub-basin area
44,5km²
Upstream area
148 232,8km²
Discharge
1 528,28m³/s
Mean elev.
406m
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°
24,9°C
Annual rain
1 701mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,03
Runoff
280mm/an
PET
1 651mm
AET
1 366mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
144cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)