HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081273240
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
747,9km²
Upstream area
127 338,6km²
Discharge
1 010,06m³/s
Mean elev.
583m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rivière Luenda1897 km²
- Bassin de Longatshimo1550 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 694.9 km²93.3% of basin
- 49.8 km²6.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
18 distinct species · 20 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 530mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,14
Runoff
155mm/an
PET
1 780mm
AET
1 286mm
Mean slope
3,9°
Water table
273cm
Forest
72%
Crops
5%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)