HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081246840
Bassin de Kasai
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 : Ilebo, Mweka
Sub-basin area
177,8km²
Upstream area
236 775,2km²
Discharge
1 785,57m³/s
Mean elev.
483m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081248210391 km²
- Bassin de Lulua14 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 106.6 km²60.2% of basin
- 70.4 km²39.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 17 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°
24,9°C
Annual rain
1 614mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,05
Runoff
190mm/an
PET
1 707mm
AET
1 353mm
Mean slope
5,3°
Water table
307cm
Forest
80%
Crops
0%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)