HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081235850
Bassin de Congo
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 4 administrative regions across 2 countries : Brazzaville, Kinshasa, Mayama, Ngamaba
Sub-basin area
1 650,4km²
Upstream area
3 634 945,8km²
Discharge
38 687,22m³/s
Mean elev.
452m
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°
24,5°C
Annual rain
1 497mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,08
Runoff
696mm/an
PET
1 638mm
AET
1 223mm
Mean slope
5,5°
Water table
283cm
Forest
16%
Crops
8%
Urban
23%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)