HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081232180
Bassin de Kwango
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, Kinshasa, Kwamouth
Sub-basin area
246,9km²
Upstream area
131 018,1km²
Discharge
1 226,85m³/s
Mean elev.
519m
Administrative coverage
Species present
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°
24,5°C
Annual rain
1 545mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,07
Runoff
474mm/an
PET
1 668mm
AET
1 283mm
Mean slope
6,6°
Water table
371cm
Forest
47%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)