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
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 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)