HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081246040
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 2 administrative regions across 2 countries : Boko, Mbanza-Ngungu
Sub-basin area
82,7km²
Upstream area
3 663 081,3km²
Discharge
39 261,64m³/s
Mean elev.
373m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Congo452 km²
- Bassin de Congo411 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 68.8 km²83.5% of basin
- 13.5 km²16.5% of basin
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°
24,6°C
Annual rain
1 195mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
516mm/an
PET
1 556mm
AET
1 010mm
Mean slope
4,1°
Water table
202cm
Forest
40%
Crops
2%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)