Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081224190

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 : Idiofa, Oshwe

Pfafstetter: 13225300

Sub-basin area

1 369,9km²

Upstream area

460 810,5km²

Discharge

3 849,29m³/s

Mean elev.

374m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Kasai54 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Oshwe

    IUCN Not Reported

    Hunting Area

    61.63 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

2 distinct species · 2 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

2 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 2
2–1
2–1
2–1
< 2

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

25,2°C

Annual rain

1 624mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,01

Runoff

310mm/an

PET

1 648mm

AET

1 320mm

Mean slope

2,4°

Water table

114cm

Forest

86%

Crops

0%

Urban

1%

Protected

0%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)