HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081240780
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 1 administrative regions : Bulungu
Sub-basin area
1 214,8km²
Upstream area
58 283km²
Discharge
765,37m³/s
Mean elev.
439m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kwilu2224 km²
- Bassin de Kwenge1475 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1209.5 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 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°
25,0°C
Annual rain
1 573mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,07
Runoff
299mm/an
PET
1 687mm
AET
1 315mm
Mean slope
5,4°
Water table
233cm
Forest
76%
Crops
1%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)