HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081245540
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 4 administrative regions : Bulungu, Gungu, Idiofa, Kikwit
Sub-basin area
2 224,1km²
Upstream area
41 085,6km²
Discharge
555,8m³/s
Mean elev.
514m
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°
24,7°C
Annual rain
1 607mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,04
Runoff
310mm/an
PET
1 682mm
AET
1 320mm
Mean slope
5,2°
Water table
258cm
Forest
72%
Crops
1%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)