HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081247360
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 : Luozi, Mbanza-Ngungu
Sub-basin area
121,4km²
Upstream area
3 665 896,8km²
Discharge
39 303,61m³/s
Mean elev.
289m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Yambi1263 km²
- Bassin de Congo232 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 112.9 km²93.5% of basin
- 7.9 km²6.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
18 distinct species · 21 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°
25,0°C
Annual rain
1 171mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
473mm/an
PET
1 543mm
AET
991mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
237cm
Forest
40%
Crops
1%
Urban
8%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)