HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081248040
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
1 041,6km²
Upstream area
80 606,9km²
Discharge
880,94m³/s
Mean elev.
546m
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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
1 645mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
287mm/an
PET
1 759mm
AET
1 387mm
Mean slope
5,6°
Water table
259cm
Forest
92%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)