HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081238660
Bassin de Kwilu
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 : Bulungu, Bulungu (ville)
Sub-basin area
707,1km²
Upstream area
60 888,3km²
Discharge
800,53m³/s
Mean elev.
424m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kabangu (Nko)1304 km²
- Bassin de Kwilu126 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 704.0 km²100.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
26 distinct species · 30 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°
24,9°C
Annual rain
1 536mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,08
Runoff
339mm/an
PET
1 673mm
AET
1 296mm
Mean slope
5,2°
Water table
236cm
Forest
74%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)