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
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Buma172 km²
- Bassin de Kasai61 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 7.7 km²77.9% of basin
- 2.2 km²22.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
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)