HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081214450
Bassin de Kwilu
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, Kwamouth
Sub-basin area
273,6km²
Upstream area
270 904,3km²
Discharge
2 929,28m³/s
Mean elev.
304m
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°
25,9°C
Annual rain
1 624mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,04
Runoff
300mm/an
PET
1 699mm
AET
1 369mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
34cm
Forest
70%
Crops
1%
Urban
18%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)