HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081247660
Bassin de Sankuru
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 : Lusambo, Lusambo (ville)
Sub-basin area
92,3km²
Upstream area
93 263,6km²
Discharge
1 029m³/s
Mean elev.
490m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,4°C
Annual rain
1 634mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,08
Runoff
280mm/an
PET
1 770mm
AET
1 382mm
Mean slope
5,5°
Water table
288cm
Forest
82%
Crops
0%
Urban
7%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)