HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081242860
Bassin de Nsele
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 : Kasangulu, Kinshasa
Sub-basin area
124,1km²
Upstream area
2 357,3km²
Discharge
38,16m³/s
Mean elev.
543m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Nsele1125 km²
- Bassin · #1081243810127 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 80.1 km²64.8% of basin
- KinshasaKinshasa · Democratic Republic of the Congo43.5 km²35.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
24,1°C
Annual rain
1 491mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,08
Runoff
512mm/an
PET
1 621mm
AET
1 217mm
Mean slope
7,5°
Water table
346cm
Forest
66%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)