HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081237390
Bassin de Bombo
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 : Kasangulu, Kinshasa, Madimba
Sub-basin area
998,6km²
Upstream area
2 399,9km²
Discharge
37,6m³/s
Mean elev.
706m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bombo877 km²
- Bassin · #1081249980525 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- KinshasaKinshasa · Democratic Republic of the Congo674.7 km²67.9% of basin
- 305.6 km²30.7% of basin
- 14.0 km²1.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bombo Lumene
IUCN VIHunting Area
487.93 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
14 distinct species · 17 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°
23,4°C
Annual rain
1 565mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
516mm/an
PET
1 614mm
AET
1 253mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
245cm
Forest
26%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
49%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)