HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081235350
Bassin de Mayi-Ndombe
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 : Kinshasa
Sub-basin area
89,7km²
Upstream area
4 977,9km²
Discharge
80,05m³/s
Mean elev.
625m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lumene2488 km²
- Bassin de Bombo999 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- KinshasaKinshasa · Democratic Republic of the Congo89.3 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bombo Lumene
IUCN VIHunting Area
66.43 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 18 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°
23,8°C
Annual rain
1 546mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,05
Runoff
594mm/an
PET
1 624mm
AET
1 259mm
Mean slope
3,8°
Water table
335cm
Forest
56%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
74%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)