HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081236010
Bassin de Kouilou
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 : Kakamoeka
Sub-basin area
31,5km²
Upstream area
56 925,1km²
Discharge
913,72m³/s
Mean elev.
26m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ndoundou153 km²
- Bassin de Kouilou15 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 31.4 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bas-Kouilou-Yombo
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
5.33 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
25,6°C
Annual rain
1 330mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,08
Runoff
607mm/an
PET
1 453mm
AET
1 045mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
58cm
Forest
100%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)