HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081238800
Bassin de Kiangwe
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 4 administrative regions : Kasongo, Kibombo, Kongolo, Lubao
Sub-basin area
3 313,5km²
Upstream area
3 313,5km²
Discharge
16,86m³/s
Mean elev.
567m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2233.3 km²67.7% of basin
- 661.0 km²20.0% of basin
- 404.3 km²12.3% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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°
25,4°C
Annual rain
1 329mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
170mm/an
PET
1 784mm
AET
1 125mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
91cm
Forest
91%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)