HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081257500
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 3 administrative regions : Luozi, Seke-Banza, Songololo
Sub-basin area
1 018,8km²
Upstream area
3 683 118,3km²
Discharge
39 496,89m³/s
Mean elev.
335m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Congo1356 km²
- Bassin · #1081253150722 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 478.4 km²47.2% of basin
- 383.2 km²37.8% of basin
- 152.8 km²15.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
29 distinct species · 468 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°
24,4°C
Annual rain
1 150mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
247mm/an
PET
1 439mm
AET
965mm
Mean slope
5,5°
Water table
332cm
Forest
49%
Crops
1%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)