HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081267850
Bassin de Kasaï
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 : Kamonia, Tshikapa
Sub-basin area
1 734,1km²
Upstream area
148 585,1km²
Discharge
1 229,34m³/s
Mean elev.
570m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tshikapa1994 km²
- Bassin de Kasaï748 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1701.3 km²98.5% of basin
- 25.3 km²1.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
34 distinct species · 54 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°
24,8°C
Annual rain
1 532mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
146mm/an
PET
1 762mm
AET
1 289mm
Mean slope
4,3°
Water table
271cm
Forest
79%
Crops
3%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)