EARTH · RIVERS & FLOODS · DR CONGO
Congo River Discharge
The latest reading on the Congo at Kinshasa, DR Congo — from the Copernicus GloFAS model, reporting river discharge (cubic metres per second). The deepest river in the world and second only to the Amazon by flow, fed by rainforest on both sides of the equator.The figure below is live, shown with the time it was taken, and framed as a measurement of flow — never a flood verdict.
What this reading means
River dischargeis the volume of water passing this point each second, in cubic metres per second (m³/s) — the standard way hydrologists size a river. GloFAS estimates it by routing rainfall and snowmelt down the whole basin. On the probe, the Congo here read about 20,988 m³/s (very high flow); the live figure above will differ with the season. It is a measure of how big the river is running — not a statement that it is flooding, which depends on the river’s own banks downstream.
About this reading
The Congo’s discharge is estimated by the Copernicus Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS), served keyless via the Open-Meteo Flood API. The point used here is the river’s verified main-stem cell near Kinshasa, DR Congo— chosen so the reading tracks the trunk of the river rather than a side channel — and the model updates daily.
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