HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081224080
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 : Idiofa, Kutu, Oshwe
Sub-basin area
54,2km²
Upstream area
469 752,7km²
Discharge
3 939,93m³/s
Mean elev.
332m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kasai1370 km²
- Bassin de Kamtsha191 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 48.6 km²89.9% of basin
- 5.1 km²9.4% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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 597mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
324mm/an
PET
1 652mm
AET
1 288mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
55cm
Forest
41%
Crops
0%
Urban
20%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)