HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081251800
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, Songololo
Sub-basin area
216,2km²
Upstream area
3 671 713,8km²
Discharge
39 370,16m³/s
Mean elev.
304m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lwala2323 km²
- Bassin de Congo1110 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 163.9 km²76.1% of basin
- 51.4 km²23.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
24 distinct species · 32 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 6 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 : 6 espèces reliées par 4 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 26.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,9°C
Annual rain
1 164mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
309mm/an
PET
1 506mm
AET
981mm
Mean slope
4,4°
Water table
260cm
Forest
31%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)