HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081210800
Bassin de Kasai
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 : Kutu, Kwamouth
Sub-basin area
166,4km²
Upstream area
753 338,7km²
Discharge
6 965,59m³/s
Mean elev.
296m
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°
25,9°C
Annual rain
1 521mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
317mm/an
PET
1 701mm
AET
1 286mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
39cm
Forest
52%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)