HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081234280
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, Kenge, Kinshasa
Sub-basin area
695,5km²
Upstream area
130 205,8km²
Discharge
1 220,25m³/s
Mean elev.
584m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
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Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
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Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,2°C
Annual rain
1 566mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
496mm/an
PET
1 661mm
AET
1 283mm
Mean slope
4,4°
Water table
315cm
Forest
36%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)