HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081213450
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 3 administrative regions : Bandundu, Kutu, Kwamouth
Sub-basin area
371,6km²
Upstream area
748 782,8km²
Discharge
6 928,05m³/s
Mean elev.
318m
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°
25,8°C
Annual rain
1 570mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,07
Runoff
304mm/an
PET
1 687mm
AET
1 328mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
59cm
Forest
65%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)