HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081214380
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 : Bagata, Bandundu, Kutu
Sub-basin area
4 904,6km²
Upstream area
477 509km²
Discharge
4 004,23m³/s
Mean elev.
343m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081222620420 km²
- Bassin de Kasai391 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2751.0 km²56.3% of basin
- 2022.3 km²41.4% of basin
- 109.6 km²2.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
328 distinct species · 602 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 10 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Kasai : 8 espèces reliées par 10 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 18.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,4°C
Annual rain
1 579mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,05
Runoff
361mm/an
PET
1 655mm
AET
1 320mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
83cm
Forest
66%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)