HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081266580
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 across 2 countries : Moanda, Soyo
Sub-basin area
659,4km²
Upstream area
3 701 299,5km²
Discharge
39 615,66m³/s
Mean elev.
54m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Congo722 km²
- Bassin de Congo671 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 639.2 km²97.4% of basin
- 7.9 km²1.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
139 distinct species · 227 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
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°
26,9°C
Annual rain
868mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
201mm/an
PET
1 461mm
AET
735mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
142cm
Forest
14%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)