Ontologia

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

Pfafstetter: 13229190

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

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

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.

Densité d'observations

54 obs · 5 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 46
46–45
4–45
2–3
< 2

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

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)