HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081223350
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, Idiofa, Kutu
Sub-basin area
113,9km²
Upstream area
470 490,2km²
Discharge
3 943,09m³/s
Mean elev.
340m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kasai623 km²
- Bassin de Kasai54 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 100.6 km²88.7% of basin
- 6.7 km²5.9% of basin
- 6.1 km²5.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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 578mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,04
Runoff
329mm/an
PET
1 651mm
AET
1 274mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
45cm
Forest
62%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)