HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081222330
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 : Bagata, Kutu
Sub-basin area
260,4km²
Upstream area
471 180km²
Discharge
3 943,6m³/s
Mean elev.
334m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kasai429 km²
- Bassin de Kasai114 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 151.5 km²58.5% of basin
- 107.7 km²41.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 4 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°
25,3°C
Annual rain
1 573mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,05
Runoff
344mm/an
PET
1 650mm
AET
1 276mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
49cm
Forest
68%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)