HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081270780
Bassin de Kwilu
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 3 administrative regions : Feshi, Gungu, Kahemba
Sub-basin area
584,1km²
Upstream area
21 215,7km²
Discharge
294,66m³/s
Mean elev.
797m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kwilu489 km²
- Bassin de Kwilu370 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 390.3 km²67.1% of basin
- 132.7 km²22.8% of basin
- 58.6 km²10.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
74 distinct species · 85 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°
23,0°C
Annual rain
1 636mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,04
Runoff
450mm/an
PET
1 704mm
AET
1 311mm
Mean slope
3,5°
Water table
272cm
Forest
87%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)