HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081262710
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, Kamonia
Sub-basin area
1 837,9km²
Upstream area
158 685,6km²
Discharge
1 320,7m³/s
Mean elev.
570m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kasaï1734 km²
- Bassin de Lovua380 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1169.3 km²63.9% of basin
- 660.7 km²36.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
22 distinct species · 34 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°
24,7°C
Annual rain
1 556mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
173mm/an
PET
1 732mm
AET
1 304mm
Mean slope
3,7°
Water table
304cm
Forest
73%
Crops
3%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)