HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081239970
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
125,8km²
Upstream area
58 876,9km²
Discharge
771,64m³/s
Mean elev.
399m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kwilu1215 km²
- Bassin · #1081240680468 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 119.4 km²95.3% of basin
- 5.9 km²4.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 3 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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
1 539mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,09
Runoff
314mm/an
PET
1 688mm
AET
1 298mm
Mean slope
4,7°
Water table
254cm
Forest
84%
Crops
8%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)