HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081240380
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 : Kenge, Kinshasa, Popokabaka
Sub-basin area
498,5km²
Upstream area
498,5km²
Discharge
7,88m³/s
Mean elev.
684m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
23,7°C
Annual rain
1 594mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
493mm/an
PET
1 652mm
AET
1 282mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
295cm
Forest
23%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)