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
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°
25,4°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)