HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081212780
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
10km²
Upstream area
752 380,4km²
Discharge
6 962,42m³/s
Mean elev.
285m
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°
26,0°C
Annual rain
1 538mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
304mm/an
PET
1 700mm
AET
1 300mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
20cm
Forest
21%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)