HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081234740
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 : Ilebo (ville), Mweka, Oshwe
Sub-basin area
313,4km²
Upstream area
148 913,6km²
Discharge
1 532,88m³/s
Mean elev.
408m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sankuru367 km²
- Bassin de Sankuru45 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 179.6 km²57.6% of basin
- 77.1 km²24.7% of basin
- 55.4 km²17.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
24,9°C
Annual rain
1 690mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,03
Runoff
279mm/an
PET
1 647mm
AET
1 356mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
189cm
Forest
83%
Crops
2%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)