HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081241030
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 5 administrative regions across 2 countries : Brazzaville, Kasangulu, Kinkala, Kinshasa, Ngamaba
Sub-basin area
1 209,6km²
Upstream area
3 642 424km²
Discharge
38 867,65m³/s
Mean elev.
396m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Congo1650 km²
- Bassin de Djoué900 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 441.2 km²36.6% of basin
- 349.5 km²29.0% of basin
- 253.6 km²21.1% of basin
- KinshasaKinshasa · Democratic Republic of the Congo158.2 km²13.1% of basin
- BrazzavilleBrazzaville · Republic of the Congo1.7 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Les Rapides du Congo-Djoué
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
51.68 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
812 distinct species · 1 494 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 : 23 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 22 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 5.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
24,7°C
Annual rain
1 345mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,16
Runoff
581mm/an
PET
1 611mm
AET
1 131mm
Mean slope
5,4°
Water table
227cm
Forest
63%
Crops
2%
Urban
11%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)