HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081234510
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 : Dimbelenge, Kole, Lusambo
Sub-basin area
868,7km²
Upstream area
99 626,2km²
Discharge
1 049,11m³/s
Mean elev.
495m
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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
1 695mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
277mm/an
PET
1 754mm
AET
1 425mm
Mean slope
3,8°
Water table
153cm
Forest
98%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)