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
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lukaya2259 km²
- Bassin de Moiema456 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1372.6 km²83.5% of basin
- KinshasaKinshasa · Democratic Republic of the Congo162.3 km²9.9% of basin
- BrazzavilleBrazzaville · Republic of the Congo70.2 km²4.3% of basin
- 38.0 km²2.3% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
N'Sele
IUCN Not ReportedNature reserve
7.96 km² overlap
Patte d'Oie
IUCN VIForest Reserve
0.54 km² overlap
Les Rapides du Congo-Djoué
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 632 distinct species · 32 407 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 22 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Congo : 16 espèces reliées par 23 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 10.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
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)