HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081234370
Bassin de Mwana
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
565,6km²
Upstream area
565,8km²
Discharge
10,27m³/s
Mean elev.
606m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- KinshasaKinshasa · Democratic Republic of the Congo488.5 km²86.8% of basin
- 74.5 km²13.2% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
17 distinct species · 18 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°
24,0°C
Annual rain
1 562mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,05
Runoff
572mm/an
PET
1 647mm
AET
1 282mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
225cm
Forest
22%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)