HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081228590
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, Mangai, Oshwe
Sub-basin area
334,7km²
Upstream area
456 270,4km²
Discharge
3 866,66m³/s
Mean elev.
389m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kasai303 km²
- Bassin de Kasai125 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 180.2 km²54.1% of basin
- 149.8 km²44.9% of basin
- 3.3 km²1.0% 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
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°
25,2°C
Annual rain
1 639mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,01
Runoff
311mm/an
PET
1 648mm
AET
1 335mm
Mean slope
3,2°
Water table
180cm
Forest
88%
Crops
0%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)