HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081255460
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, Luebo
Sub-basin area
1 473,8km²
Upstream area
163 313,7km²
Discharge
1 342,04m³/s
Mean elev.
540m
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°
24,8°C
Annual rain
1 562mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,09
Runoff
157mm/an
PET
1 723mm
AET
1 317mm
Mean slope
5,4°
Water table
290cm
Forest
76%
Crops
1%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)