HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081240820
Bassin de Musuku
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 : Kabambare, Kasongo, Kasongo (ville)
Sub-basin area
778,9km²
Upstream area
779,3km²
Discharge
3,58m³/s
Mean elev.
614m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 655.3 km²84.5% of basin
- 80.3 km²10.4% of basin
- 39.9 km²5.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
46 distinct species · 74 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°
24,8°C
Annual rain
1 474mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,16
Runoff
150mm/an
PET
1 756mm
AET
1 246mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
148cm
Forest
68%
Crops
8%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)